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| STUCK IN THE MUD WITH OUR FORD FUSION, THIS PICTURE DOES NOT SHOW HOW MUCH IT IS RAINING OR HOW DEEP THE MUD IS!! |
Monday, December 22, 2014
FORD FUSION STUCK IN THE MUD!! DECEMBER 22, 2014
GET A LITTLE MUD ON THE TIRES!- OR ALOT!! MERRY CHRISTMAS- DECEMBER 22, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well this has been quite the week. It felt really slow after all the
craziness of last week but it was still a really good week! Monday we had a
lesson with Dana, she is super awesome! We taught her the stop smoking program
(I asked her what was in this smoking cessation package-it contains- New
toothbrush, cinnamon mouthwash, cinnamon toothpaste, vitamin C chewable tablets,
Grapefruit juice. Sister Price says it does seem like an odd combination but she
has seen this work time after time on her mission with success. Even over all
the expensive patches and pills and programs that people have tried over and
over- Sis. Price also says that this pack contains one more thing that is the
best - Faith and the help of priesthood blessings). One thing about Swainsboro,
EVERYONE smokes. Pretty much every house you go in reeks of cigarette smoke and
I have to wash my clothes all the time because I feel like thats all I smell
like. It's bad. She is super excited to start though! She just has to wait until
she can afford all of the supplies. She is really great though and we love her.
She has a super cute little girl who is 2 and everything is "cute" or "purdy"
and she love to get our cameras and look through the pictures. She calls it the
"cheese." She loves to find my lipstick and methodically take everything out of
my bag and then put it all back in again, she randomly likes to try on our
shoes! Our next project is her husband. He is awesome and will be a great
member, he is just a little wary of churches because he grew up going to" Church
of God"(think hollering and speaking in tongues) and it scared him! We also have
to convince him that going to church on Sunday is more important than hunting
and fishing! It's really funny because since Dana has started meeting with us
she has been bugging him about going to church but he has gone off hunting every
weekend. I guess she told him that he wasn't going to shoot anything because he
should be at church and since she said that he hasn't shot anything! I thought
that was really funny. She says he is really stubborn but I have a lot of
experience with people who are really stubborn. Myself included. We were at walmart and I had a prompting to buy some advil, I knew that I did not need any but I have learned to follow promptings, I bought some and then we had an appointment with Dana, she answered the door and had a really bad toothache and did not have anything. I had the advil! I gave it to her and she was so thankful, always follow promptings!! We usually have
a really good mix of tracting and finding and teaching. We have found some
really awesome people this week! Saturday we tried an old referral from online
and they didn't live there anymore but we found this really awesome lady who
said she would read the Book of Mormon and we have a return appointment with
her! Yesterday we were tracting and trying people and almost everyone let us in
and were really nice! We even had a few who were interested and we got return
appointments with them! It was really awesome but also really not normal. It
felt like we weren't even really in Georgia. On Saturday we made cookies with
the Ference's. They are a less active family we are working with and they are
really cool. We went over and made tons of cookies and then she was so sweet and
bought us these cute Christmas tins from the dollar store and wrapped them up
for us to give out to people! She is super nice. They feed us twice a week and
we have been having THEM teach us the lessons so that is fun too! We are also
teaching their granddaughter who is living with them because she just turned
eight and they want her to be baptized. Well now I will tell about the adventure
of last night. It had been raining all day yesterday and it was raining pretty
hard last night. We were trying to find an old referral and were turning around
on a dirt road and Sister Woodard was trying to turn around without me having to
get out and back her up because it was raining. Well we ended up getting stuck
in the mud! We tried many things to get unstuck but to no avail. We were stuck.
The problem is, everyone in the branch is old, so they can't help push us out
and they all have small cars! We were going through the list of people in our
phone trying to decide who could help us. Finally we tried calling a guy we used
to teach who is the son of one of the members. He was really nice and came with
his truck and pulled us out! We gave him some Christmas cookies after. It was
quite the adventure though! We got super muddy and wet trying to get ourselves
unstuck. The guy who helped us had a super thick southern accent. I will have to
try and imitate it when we skype. It's pretty great! It is truly the South here,
some of the sayings I hear frequently "Cut the lights on" and "Buggy" for a
shopping cart. I am doing well and we are working hard, we have a lot of little
towns surrounding Swainsboro that we go to, the people here are kind and
welcoming although they don't have much. Our little church is small and
adorable and meets our needs. Serving in a branch has been really great. Our
branch mission leader is 87! Well I hope you all have a Merry Christmas! If you
haven't watched " He is the Gift" yet you should! You should all choose one
thing you can do to as a gift for Christ this Christmas it does not have to be
expensive just even a change of heart or attitude or a smile. I love you all
tons! Skyping with the family will be great, there is the less active family
that wants us to come over, so it will be 5 your time but 7 for me, so excited!
Happy hot dog roasting!! Merry Christmas Elder Thomas! Merry Christmas Elder
Harrop!
Love,
Sister Price
Monday, December 15, 2014
SWAINSBORO- I GOT TRANSFERRED! DEC. 15, 2014
Hey Everyone! December
15, 2014
I am going to end this because I
don't have a whole lot longer on the computer! The branch is very interesting.
I guess the branch president can be a little cantankerous at times and has made
Sister Winward and Sister Woodard cry but I think I will be ok because I have
been around a lot of slightly belligerent men throughout my life. Right Dad? And
Grandpa Price? So bring it on!! Just
kidding. But I do have a pretty thick skin! I really like Sister Woodard she is
from Boise, Idaho and she went to Capital High!! She is “healthy” no allergies,
no pains of any kind can go running and
exercise so that is awesome because I have 4 months to get back into shape! I
secretly was praying that I would get a “healthy companion”! It is pretty
awesome here and I love it so far! I hope you all have a great week! Love you
all!
Love,
Sister Price
CARRIES BAPTISM! NEW COMPANION SISTER WOODARD- IN SWAINSBORO, DEC. 15, 2014
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| CARRIES BAPTISM!! SO JEALOUS! with Sister Wheelwright and her companion, 12/13/14 |
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| NEW COMPANION SISTER WOODARD-SWAINSBORO, DEC. 9, 2014 |
Monday, December 8, 2014
Good-bye Valdosta! Transfers - December 8, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well
this has been quite the week! Monday we had a great lesson with Tina and her
daughter. They are doing really great. Then on Tuesday we had an awesome lesson
with the part member family! He totally got baptized on Saturday. It was
awesome! Ok and then funny story that happened on Tuesday. So on Monday we got
a media referral who wanted a Book of Mormon. Her name was Shamika. I don't
know about ya'll but when I think of the name Shamika I think of a black
person. I mean, I have met quite a few black Shamika's. So we go to contact
this person and this white guy opens the door. I was thinking ok, this guy is
white, but Shamika is still definitely black. We ask for her and the guy points
to this white girl sitting on the couch! We were totally shocked! A white
Shamika. Anyway we ended up teaching her and she is going to come to church
with her family this next Sunday! Too bad we won't be there, that is the
hardest part to leave investigators! Then on Saturday Chris got baptized! It
was super awesome. We got to skype the temple square sisters in so they could
watch! It was all super awesome. This year we got to see the Christmas
Devotional because the Robinsons had some investigators over to watch it with
us! Last year we did not get to see it since there was no investigators
with us. Sister Robinson took pictures of us and sent them to you Mom
through text. I am going to miss her and their family. Her husband
is the Branch President of the Young Adult Ward. I never did get to
go to the Alligator Farm that was here, it was always raining or we were busy,
so as of yet I have not seen an Alligator!! Thanks for figuring
out how to copy and paste some of Calebs email/blog letters since
I can't open blog sites. Caleb has done really well with his letters,
lots of good information and letting us all know how things are with him
(Gage will be proud of Calebs letter information abilities) and now he is
in PERU! Glad at this time he is doing well ! Crew did a super
job decorating our tree and I hear his brownies were a hit that he made all
from Scratch, no box, sorry though about losing track of time and getting in
trouble. I am kind of in shock and I don't know what else to write.
Sorry if this is a pathetic email. I don't really know what else to say. We
were saying good-bye to lots of people yesterday! I am really sad I won't be
here for Christmas, the Robinson family had a way awesome Christmas Day
planned and we were all set to Skype from their computer! That's
alright, Heavenly Father has another plan and I'm excited to see what I am
needed to do and where I am going to serve!! Well my brain is not working
very well so this is probably about all you will get today! Sorry it's so
short! Have a good week everyone!
Sister Price
Monday, December 1, 2014
Thanksgiving and Now its December, December 1, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! Mine was good! It wasn't
very eventful though. Monday towards the end of P-day I started feeling really
terrible again so I just stayed in and rested. It was pouring rain all night
anyway and there were tornado warnings so it wasn't a terrible night to have to
stay in. Tuesday morning we went and did service for a group called "Second
Harvest" who were giving out food for Thanksgiving. It was pouring rain pretty
much the whole time! Let me say, raincoats are great, but they don't keep the
rain out forever when it's pouring rain! I thought for sure I was going to make
myself sick again but I survived. We did it from 7-12 in the morning. The Elders
wouldn't stop making fun of me because my hands got cold and so they turned this
weird gray-blue color and it was creeping them out. I had to go home after and
take a really hot shower and then I wasn't feeling so hot so I thought I would
lay down for a bit and ended up like passing out for 3 hours. Apparently people
tried to wake me up but I wasn't having any of it. Then Wednesday I was finally
feeling like a normal person again! Plus it stopped raining on Wednesday so we
could go out and actually do missionary work and not have people think we were
crazy! Yay! Wednesday we had our district meeting to introduce the initiative
the church is starting. It is called "He is the Gift" and it is a pretty cool
video! The website is really awesome too! It has tons of info and really fun
short movies. It's pretty great. Then that evening we went and saw this slightly
crazy referral. That was an interesting experience. Then Thursday was
Thanksgiving. The eating marathon! We started out the day at Cracker Barrel
around 11. I knew we would have Thanksgiving dinner so I got breakfast! I got
french toast and it was super yummy. Then we had a dinner with a less active who
lives at a retirement home. That was interesting. I just have to say that I
strongly dislike dressing. It is just not good and I am very thankful I don't
have to ever eat it again! Also, macaroni and cheese is just not a Thanksgiving
food! Then we had a break to digest for a while and we went over to the
Robinsons. They are super awesome! They had normal Thanksgiving food like
stuffing and rolls and potatoes and gravy. It was really delicious! I was super
full though. Then we went to a family after that and had dessert! It was a
pretty full day. Then Friday Sister Wheelwright got sick but we struggled out a
lesson with the family we have been working with. He is getting baptized on
Saturday so that is super exciting! Another exciting thing is that his son was
at the lesson also and he expressed interest in going to church and learning
more! It is all super awesome. Friday night a member of the bishopric called and
asked if I would speak on Sunday so I ended up giving a talk on keeping the
commandments/following the savior/whatever I felt like I could talk about for
ten minutes at short notice. I talked about how keeping the commandments relates
to having a broken heart and a contrite spirit. I have been reading the bible
dictionary lately because that is what you do when you have read everything else
multiple times. I came across the scriptural definition for the word "peculiar"
and I really liked it! The scriptural definition for the word "peculiar" is "the
Lord's own special people or treasure." We have always heard ourselves described
as a peculiar people, thinking we are odd, which we are, but when the Lord calls
us peculiar people in the scriptures he means we are his treasure! Ya'll might
have already known this but it's a new discovery for me and I thought it was
cool. That's about all I have for today! Hope everyone has a great week!
Love,
Sister Price
Friday, November 28, 2014
THANKSGIVING PICTURES, VALDOSTA GEORGIA 2014, NOVEMBER 27, 2014
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| THANKSGIVING AT THE ROBINSONS IN VALDOSTA GEORGIA. SISTER WHEELWRIGHT, SISTER PRICE AND A VERY FURRY CAT! HARD TO FIND IT EYES! |
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| ALL THE SISTERS AT THE ROBINSONS: SISTER WHEELWRIGHT, SISTER PRICE, SISTER WAYCOTT, SISTER MICHIE! LOOKING HAPPY AND WELL TAKEN CARE OF! |
RAIN AND THE PLAGUE! November 24, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well this week everyone except Sister Wheelwright got what we have
dubbed "the plague!" Basically it starts out with your throat getting super sore
and your tonsils feel like they have tripled in size. Then you feel like death
for about 24 hours and then it just goes back to a sore throat and you start
feeling better. I hit the death stage yesterday (Sunday) and today my throat is
still pretty sore but I no longer feel like death(until the Advil wears off! It
was a good day to feel like death though because it was storming like crazy so
it would have been hard to get work done. Ok now to remember what happened
during my week.
Monday was fairly uneventful. We finished up P-day and then we went
out to tract but then Sister Wheelwright didn't feel well so we came back in.
Tuesday we had district meeting and then I headed to Douglas on exchanges with
Sister Madsen! It was really fun! I love Douglas because everyone there is SO
southern and they all have really strong southern accents. It's awesome! We had
a really good time and talked about lots of things. She really helped me with
some of the things I have been struggling with lately and I was able to help her
get better at using the Pamphlets especially on teaching the "Plan of
Salvation" she says that one has always been hard for her to teach. She is a
pretty awesome missionary! I went to the meeting with their ward mission leader
and he has one of those" Segway" (pretty sure I spelled that totally wrong)
things that you stand on and zoom around on that he wanted us to ride, like the
"zoomy" things off of "Mall Cop" the movie! He was really impressed that I
didn't fall off the first time because he said that most people do because its a
weird feeling. Whatever, I just have skills! It was really fun, those things are
cool! Then I came back to Valdosta. I don't really remember what happened on
Wednesday. We had coordination meeting and then we did something. Thursday was a
good day! That was the day the other sisters had the" plague "so they stayed in
all day. We went to Quitman (small town) and spent quite a bit of time out
there. Then we had dinner with the senior couple and went to a lesson with them!
They are way cool! They are both converts, from the South-ish. Sister Swank's
dad was a Presbyterian minister! She said he had a hard time with her
conversion. Then they went with us to a lesson! We had a lesson with Dot, she is
always interesting. Last week she told a story about how she cast out a "demon"
and this week she said she believes in "Black Jesus"! That is a big thing in the
South. You have to be careful with how you talk about Jesus or people will go
on a rant about"Black Jesus". It was a pretty good lesson though! Then Friday we
worked on our map a lot. We got a lot done! There is a ridiculous amount of less
actives though. If we could activate everyone in Quitman they could totally have
their own branch! Oh and we did visit an old lady who lives in Quitman who kept
asking us the same questions. It was pretty funny. She is really sweet though.
She asked us if we were enjoying the weather like four times. Saturday was good,
we had lunch with Mary,she is so cool! She is going to take us to Cracker Barrel
Thanksgiving morning! We have not had any Thanksgiving invites this year! It has
been so weird! Last year we had a ton. I take that back we just had a family
invite us over and they are awesome so we are excited! The poor Elders haven't
had any invites yet, I feel really bad for them! The Stake is doing this really
cool "He is the gift initiative", kind of like what they did at Easter except
bigger! We even get special pass along cards for it! I am super excited!
Saturday I started feeling really bad, I got the fever and chills and my throat
felt so sore and swollen but we had an appointment to teach a recent convert
family who are really cool and love us to come over and talk with them about
what they are reading in the Book of Mormon. (their house is not the cleanest
but they are cool). I did not want to take my germs to their kids or them but
my companion had a bit of an issue about going with one of the other Sisters in
our apartment because of this house issue. I told her that these people needed
to be visited and they were expecting the missionaries to come! I finally lost
my "temper" a bit and told her that If she did not go that I was going to
"shiver" my way to their house with her in tow and that she was not having
"Charity for them and they just wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon"!
She then went with one of the other Sisters and they were visited and it all
turned out well! Yesterday (sunday) I mostly just felt like "death" all day,
though we did have a lesson with the part member family. He has been almost two
weeks without smoking! Yay! We also got a call from the temple square sisters
who have been working with him and they get to skype in for the baptism! It's
going to be way awesome! It was weird to get a call from Utah. I have been
reading" Acts" this week and I have decided that Paul is kind of like the New
Testament version of" Elder Holland". He is pretty intense. Anyway I was reading
and I really loved this scripture! Well I can't remember the scripture so it
will have to wait until next week! My Advil is wearing off and I am starting to
feel really awful again! Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Remember to say
"Thanks" for your blessings! I am saying Thanks for having the knowledge to
know what drugs to take that my super smart Dad had me bring out here just for
these occasions of sickness! I love you all!
Love,
Sister Price
(Note from Sis. Price's Mom, she is feeling much better as of Thanksgiving
Day. The sweet family that fed them dinner sent us a text and picture of her
and we were able to ask some questions that she could answer, so we know she is
again Healthy and strong! We are thankful for the kindness of the members in
Georgia assisting our loved Missionaries!)
Monday, November 17, 2014
I CAN REMEMBER, MY BRAIN DOES WORK RANDOMLY! NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Ok so I totally remembered what happened this week! Yay! Miracles do
happen! For real though, last week was terrible. Last Monday was fairly
uneventful. Not much happened. Most of the week we spent planning for Grandpa
Red's memorial ( the old fellow who passed away after we cleaned his
house). Tuesday morning we had a really great lesson with the part member family
we have been working with. We taught the Word of Wisdom. He has a smoking
problem and has been working on quitting since last December and said that it
was ironic we taught that lesson because he had just started smoking again! He
has since recommitted to quit and has been smoke free for 5 days now. They are
pretty awesome! Then we helped plan the memorial for Grandpa Red which was
interesting....mostly because neither of us really knew him and the family had
no idea what they were doing! Then we had a lesson in this town named Morven
which is about 30 minutes away from Valdosta. We cover a bunch of little
outlying small towns that are each about 30 minutes away in all different
directions. We cover Quitman, Morven, Hahira, Lake Park, and some others that I
can't remember right now. It's fun. Anyway it was a referral from the ward
mission leader and its a lady who comes into his dentist office. I guess she was
taught by the missionaries a few years ago and she was recently telling him
about it so he decided to ask if she would like to meet with them again! It was
an interesting lesson but she let us come back and we had a really good lesson
last night so its good! She is really nice, she has some very interesting
theories and experiences but then again most people in the South do, they love
talking a bit about demonic spirits and casting them out and they are always a
bit obsessed with gifts of the spirit! We just have to really stay on task and
firmly teach what is true! Wednesday was not real exciting, and Thursday we had
ZTM which was a tad bit boring. I honestly can't really remember a lot of what
we talked about. Oops. Friday we had Grandpa Red's memorial. They had Sister
Wheelwright give a talk so she freaked out about that for a long time. It was a
very interesting memorial. There weren't really many people there and the people
from his family who spoke were really short in their thoughts and didn't really
say much about his life. It was very different. Oh and on Friday there was a
senior couple who came to the memorial service, They are here as military
relations. Their name is the Swanks and they are from Cedar City. They both seem
really nice! Then on Saturday we spent most of the day weekly planning because I
wanted to do a really good job and have lots of plans so that we always have
something to do. I have been slacking on that a little lately so it has been a
little more difficult. Yesterday was really awesome! Church was good and we had
a lesson with the part member family (the Dad is not a member and asked me the
question about Jesus being a God also). He was talking with us and all of a
sudden he was like" oh ya I am getting baptized Dec. 6."! We were like oh ok
really? I guess he had a lesson with the temple square missionaries and they put
him on date! I had been feeling like we could put him on date for sometime in
December but it never felt like the right time so I guess they were supposed to
do it! It was awesome though! lt has been fun working with them and then hearing
about the temple square missionaries. It's pretty awesome to see how he has
progressed from being unsure to being totally dedicated to baptism! He does have
some medical problems but as long as he takes his medication he is really good
and he understands and is accountable for his choices, his wife is really good
about helping him. He knows he has to work hard and he has studied and prayed
very hard so that he knows the difference between the "Holy Ghost" and then the
other more random thoughts that he struggles with. It's awesome how he has been
blessed as he has learned gospel principles with all aspects of his life! Caleb
will be just fine as he heads for Peru today! Each missionary has different
types of being homesick. I know that for me it feels like an "Eternity" since I
have seen ya'll, and I mostly can't believe that I have actually survived
because I didn't think I would. I mean I knew I would be the best missionary I
could be but I also could not imagine on Oct. 2, 2013 where I would be or how I
would survive a year from that time. I can't say that time has gone by fast and
I feel like a part of me is "missing" everyday, I hope that all makes sense!
Just yesterday in our apartment the other sisters were saying that they rarely
get homesick, I was like "I'm homesick all the time! But I have just learned to
deal with it and compartmentalize it in a corner of my mind and then I work just
as hard as I can because "Work" is the best cure and sharing the gospel and
watching how peoples lives change there is no words to describe! The Lord always
sends us Tender Mercies to lift us up, sometimes we don't realize it at the time
until we look back at recognize it for the blessing that it was for us. For me
it was the letters and packages that would randomly come from Karen and Tammy
and family members, its amazing how much just a simple card with "Have a good
week" on it is such a blessing. I was blessed with the Meachams the older
couple who helped with the ward in my first area but also really helped us
missionaries, I don't know how I would have acclimated for the first 6 months of
my mission without them. So Heavenly Father is always watching out for us even
when we feel our lowest, prayer is awesome and you can communicate with him
anytime anywhere! We have a really great week planned so it should be good! We
have exchanges this week and I am going to Douglas again so that should be fun!
I don't have a specific spiritual thought this week just kind of some thoughts.
I have been reading the New Testament and I am currently in Acts. I am really
enjoying seeing the growth in Christ's apostles. They start out dedicated and
knowing they want to follow Christ but to see their testimonies grow is cool.
Especially Peter, he goes from having faith and dedication but not being quite
sure how to do what he wants to do, to this amazing leader of the church with
unwavering faith! It's pretty awesome. I am enjoying the cool weather and am
still thankful every day that I only had one summer here! I love all of you and
hope you have a great week! It was great hearing about Sister Woods homecoming,
sometime soon it will be mine!
Love,
Sister Price
Sunday, November 16, 2014
PICTURES OF MY VALDOSTA DISTRICT AND MY HAIR KEEPS ON GROWING! NOVEMBER 10, 2014
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| MY VALDOSTA DISTRICT-R-L- SIS. PRICE, SIS. WHEELWRIGHT, SIS. MAXFIELD, SIS. WAYCOTT. (NO NAMES FOR THE ELDERS) |
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| AT LEAST MY HAIR IS LOVING THE HEAT IN GEORGIA! I EVEN CUT OFF 4-5 INCHES RECENTLY!! |
STOMACH FLU AND WARD PARTIES! NOVEMBER 10, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well it has been another fairly uneventful week. I think. I might
remember something exciting. We have mostly just been working on finding people.
Seriously though I can't remember. This is probably going to be the lamest email
ever. I apologize. On Friday we had interviews with President Cottle in Tifton
basically he asks me how am I doing and I answer "Fine", and then we are done.
I rarely go into details about stuff cause I don't want to take his time, he
always seems so busy and when it is interview time he always seems behind and
pre-occupied, but you know me, I just be obedient, follow the rules and work as
hard as I can. We also had an activity for the recent converts/less
actives/investigators on Friday night. We didn't have the greatest attendance
but it was the first time! It was good for a first time Ward and Missionary
activity since we didn't really know what we were doing. We watched some mormon
messages and then had ice cream and played an interesting combination of
pictionary/family feud. Then Saturday Sister Wheelwright got a bad case of the
stomach flu that has been going around and she got it! I felt really bad for
her! I also think I slightly offended her because I kept following her around
and disinfecting where she had been. I just didn't want anyone else to get it! I
did get sick last night but it was only a few hours and I took some Zofran and
this morning I feel fine. Sorry this email is so short and non descriptive! I
seriously feel like I am losing my mind because I can't remember anything. I
will repent and do better next week! The weather has been nice this week. I have
been reading the New Testament the past few weeks and I have decided that I
really like the book of John! It is one of my favorites. Our lesson in Relief
Society yesterday was on prayer and I really liked it. This is probably one of
my favorite quotes from the lesson, "I wonder if we ever stop to think why
the Lord has asked us to pray. Did he ask us to pray because he wants us to bow
down and worship him? Is that the main reason? I don’t think it is. He is our
Heavenly Father, and we have been commanded to worship him and pray to him in
the name of his Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. But the Lord can get along without
our prayers. His work will go on just the same, whether we pray or whether we do
not. … Prayer is something that we need, not that the Lord needs. He knows just
how to conduct his affairs and how to take care of them without any help from
us. Our prayers are not for the purpose of telling him how to run his business.
If we have any such idea as that, then of course we have the wrong idea. Our
prayers are uttered more for our sakes, to build us up and give us strength and
courage, and to increase our faith in him." We pray because we need it! Prayer
is meant to help us align our will with Heavenly Father's, not to just give him
a list of things we think we want/need. There is a section in Preach My
Gospel that I really like that talks about prayer. It talks about how when we
pray we should be guided by the Spirit as to what to pray for. Definitely easier
said than done! That is about all I have for this week! I hope ya'll have a good
week! Love ya!
Love,
Sister Price
P.S. Tell Sister Wood Hello for me, and if you see the Meachams a super
hello to them!! I can't believe Sister Wood is home!!
Monday, November 3, 2014
HALLOWEEN COOKIES, ALLIGATORS AND GIANT TURTLES! NOVEMBER 3, 2014
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| "HELP AN ALLIGATOR HAS MY ARM"! |
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| "RIDIN' ON A GIANT TURTLE" |
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| STARTING OF THE HALLOWEEN COOKIE DOUGH |
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| LETS MAKE "GREEN GOBLIN" DOUGH FOR HALLOWEEN! LOOKS AWFUL! |
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| ZOMBIE HALLOWEEN COOKIE MAN! HOPE HE TASTES GOOD! |
Happy Halloween and Now it is November! November 3, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well this has been quite the week. I feel like I have been doing
everything but missionary work this week! I don't like weeks like this, it makes
me feel like not a missionary and then I get more homesick and stuff. Not cool.
It all started out with Monday. Remember when I talked about the old fellow
whose house we went and cleaned? Well he passed away on Monday and after we were
done emailing the grandson called and asked if there was anyone who could bring
them meals. Well I called all of the relief society people to no avail and so
there wasn't anyone answering. Finally they got back and said that no one could
take food that night but they would do something for the rest of the week. We
felt bad so we decided to make them some food. We had a ton of stuff to make
spaghetti because along with the 90 lbs of rice someone dropped off enough
spaghetti and sauce to feed an army so we made that and took it over and that
pretty much used up the whole night. Then that night we get a text from the AP's
and the Elders saying that the Elders couldn't find a ride to transfers so could
they please take our car....that meant we would have to walk all day Tuesday
which I am fine with, I am actually getting really good at walking and can walk
like 2 miles in 35 minutes and feel fine. However the closest people we visit
are like 5 miles or more away because we are a driving zone so it kind of killed
our plans for the day. Plus our car is only 3 weeks old and I mean
seriously....Elders taking it all the way to Macon? We knew it wasn't going to
return the same!! That just started Tuesday out. We were supposed to have a meal
with a family at five but we weren't sure if our car would make it back in time!
We called to let them know and they were like freaking out about it but we got
it figured out. Then the Elders called 45 minutes before we were supposed to be
there and said they were an hour behind schedule and wouldn't be there for
another hour at least! So then we had to call and cancel dinner and that made
the lady super mad. Ugh. Then they didn't get our car back until 6:30 and they
had scratched and dented the trunk with the bike rack! It looks awful! Our poor
car! It's not even a month old! We were also late for our 6:00 appointment. That
just started out the week and the whole week went pretty much like that. Sister
Waycott is training this transfer and her trainee is really cool! She is from
Alaska! She says that I can totally come visit her and go hunting/fishing. It's
going to be awesome! We have driven a lot this transfer so we were pretty much
out of miles on our car this week so we decided to redo our map! It looks super
awesome! We even got laminate and made it really pretty looking. Also, funny
story. So we haven't gotten any supply orders for stuff we needed last transfer!
That meant that we didn't have any planners to use for the new transfer! We had
to end up using some spanish planners that we found in the apartment. It has
been super funny. We got supplies this week though so I now have an English
planner again! We were on lockdown Friday and Saturday because there was a huge
rival football game happening in Valdosta so they postponed Halloween to
Saturday. Fun stuff. Lockdown was good, we made the cookie mix it looks
disgusting but it was Halloween, they tasted good. We also did our weekly
planning, played the Book of Mormon card game you sent and then our apartment
just had a "Harry Potter Clue Game" that was left here. I made clam chowder, I
forgot to put in a diced onion but it tasted good anyway. Then when we woke up
Sunday morning the Elders had Colored all over the windows of our car! Seriously
we couldn' t even see. We will get them back though. We are going to be super
nice to them and pretend like we don't care and then in a week or two when they
aren't suspecting it we are going to put glitter and pink streamers all over
their bikes! Oh and Mary took us to lunch at this pizza place on Saturday and it
was super delicious! Probably like the best pizza I have ever had! It was way
good! We also had a really good lesson with the Bush's on Friday. It was funny
because I started out asking if he had any questions and he said "yes" and his
first question was "Is Jesus Christ God?" and I was expecting a question with a
complicated answer so it took me a minute to process that one! I was like well
ya! I guess he was watching some you tube thing and the lady said that if you
ask a mormon if Jesus Christ is God they will always say no. I was glad I passed
that question! I just hope that the whole "Trinity" question does not "rear its
head". Ok so my spiritual thought this week. I was reading in D&C and this
scripture just really popped out to me when I read it! I think its because
sometimes I struggle with loving people and loving my area. I have always
struggled with that though, I really like to build walls around myself! It's a
revelation to Thomas Marsh and it is D&C 112:11 " I know thy heart, and
have heard thy prayers concerning thy brethren. Be not partial towards them in
love above many others, but let thy love be for them as for thyself; and let thy
love abound unto all men, and unto all who love my name."I just really liked the
part where it says "let thy love abound unto all men, and unto all who love my
name." When I read it I just felt like that was something I really needed
to do! It is something that I will be working on! Well I hope everyone had a fun
Halloween! I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Love Sister Price
TOGETHER AGAIN AND SURPRISE VISIT FROM PRESIDENT COTTLE, TRUNK OR TREAT, OCTOBER 27, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Love,
Well another transfer has come and gone! Sister Wheelwright and I are
staying together again which is going to be good. A week ago Monday my
companion decided to have some issues with some teaching skills that are
required throughout the mission, I thought that we had come to a pretty good
co-operative working situation. Living in an apartment with 4 girls does have
challenges namely "Girl Head Games". I don't play those games, at the pharmacy
when my Dad was irritating me we "Hashed it out" then all was good and life went
on! So I made her talk things out last week which made her a little huffy but
she got over it and things have been going better. Wow this week! I feel like I
am losing my mind because I can hardly remember what has happened during my
weeks. Everything just kind of blurs together. Sometimes I am just
super EXHAUSTED AND TIRED and mostly feel like a zombie. Speaking of zombie's,
each of us in our apartment have taken turns having ebola/zombie dreams. I had a
dream where Ebola mutated into some sort of Zombie causing disease. Probably
because we have 90 lbs of rice at our apartment and so we were joking with the
Elders that in case of the zombie apocalypse they could get permission from
President Cottle to come hole up in our apartment and we could live on Rice and
canned chicken until it gets all figured out because we have like 20 cans of
chicken and tuna. Thus the Ebola/zombie dreams. Tina chastised us for not
watching the news and said that we need to use hand sanitizer all the time so we
don't get Ebola! Apparently its the new big thing that everyone is talking
about.
Ok so trying to remember my week. I also forgot my planner which I
usually use as a mini diary to remember what we did during the week. I am a
mess. Tuesday was a really good day and we talked to lots of people and had some
really good lessons. The part member family we are teaching is doing really
well. The Dad says he wants to be baptized, he just has some issues to work out
first and he wants to take it slow. They also have a 14 year old son who is
coming around! We had some very interesting lessons this week with some
interesting people with some very interesting beliefs. We are still mostly in
the finding process. Sister Wheelwright is really good at contacting though so I
am learning a lot from her in that area! (ya'll know how I love tracting)! I
am helping her read" Jesus the Christ" because the length and the long words
and complicated language Elder Talmage uses intimidate her so that has been fun!
We have come up with some fun new phrases like "transcendantly glorious" and
something else that I can't recall at this moment. (I do love big, thick, books
with wonderful descriptive Words).
Our ward had a trunk or treat this weekend which was really fun! We
had a really good turnout with non members and less actives that came! It was
pretty great and our trunk was decorated pretty fantastically! We cut open a
bunch of glow sticks and sprayed them all over the car and the next day it
hadn't all come off so we got super paranoid because it is a brand new car but
then it faded so we are very relieved! We tried to take pictures but you
couldn't really get a good picture of the glow stuff but its still cool!
Everyone loved it! We modeled it after the scripture story in" 2 Kings"
when ELISHA the PROPHET dies and they bury him in a "Sepulchre" (our
trunk) Then quite a bit of time passes and the Israelites are having a funeral
for a man who has died. Suddenly they are descended upon by a marauding band of
men. The Israelites get scared and hurry and throw the dead man into the
Sepulchre of Prophet Elisha. When his body touches Elisha's bones he comes back
alive and jumps out of the Sepulchre! Now that beats all this fake Zombie stuff
and continues to show the POWER OF EVEN A PROPHETS BONES! All of the ward
members looked at us Sister Missionaries like we were crazy when we told them
the story but it was still really fun and fits HALLOWEEN! I got your package
mom and it came just in time for our Saturday trunk or treat so we all wore the
"flashing pumpkin necklaces". Then a bit of sadness the Elderly fellow that all
of us missionaries super cleaned his house so he would not get evicted, well he
passed away. I think the house was to clean and the germs were keeping him
alive! I loved the emails, Camille looked very concentrated on her ballet.
Thank you for the information on Uncle Burt, he was truly a great man, very
quiet and super busy all the time. He will be missed, but he was a trouper there
were many times I remember that he was not suppose to survive a lot of things!
I have not heard from Sister Wood, she is probably in flight headed home as I
email today, so I don't know exactly when in November her homecoming will be or
which church in Vernal. Oh, well. I got the IPOD!! It has all conference on
there and the other favorite talks, we all love the Lemonade song from Alex
Boye, you did real good! I also absolutely love the "Gary Bracelet" I can wear
it no problem, thank Sister Cox for braiding the hair and you did good Mom
getting the ends into those little things so it can clip, I love it!! Just
saying only 23 more P-Days! The days just whiz by and I feel like I am hurrying
but there is so much to do and boy am I "Tired", I have never felt so tired!
But its all good it means the work is hastening forward! I can't believe the
Holidays are upon us! Oh and if anyone is wanting to send me packages (this is
not me begging for packages, just an informative thing) please don't send me
candy! We get so much candy from the ward members and everyone that I don't need
anymore! I also don't need chap stick or hand sanitizer. I hope everyone has a
fun Halloween! Read "2 Kings" it is like a Halloween spiritual thought,
especially chapter 13. I will be on lockdown in the apartment doing weekly
planning. Yay! Love you all! Love to Uncle Burts Family!!
Love,
Sister Price
P.S. I forgot to include two weeks ago President Cottle came to our zone
and did a surprise visit. Well us Sisters were doing well and were up and doing
what we were suppose to. But the Elders were still in pajamas, lounging about
not doing anything-they got Chastised- We have an Elder serving here from South
Africa, he has been a member for 5 years, not sure what his deal is but really
disobedient! Well lets just say our whole little disobedient group of Elders
have been split up and transferred all over the mission! Will be interesting to
see who gets transferred in. Anyway, Love you all lots, thanks for the
support!
DOUGLAS EXCHANGE PICTURES! OCTOBER 20, 2014
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| LOVE THIS SIGN IN A LITTLE CAFE IN DOUGLAS! |
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| AWESOME DEER FOOT LAMP! DAD WOULD LOVE THIS! |
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| THE 4 SISTERS GOING ON EXCHANGES |
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| OUR NEW INVESTIGATOR! PHOTO BOMBER MAN BEHIND ME! |
DOUGLAS SISTERS, TRUNK OR TREAT "ELISHA'S BONES", OCT. 25, 2014
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| GOING ON EXCHANGES TO DOUGLAS, GEORGIA |
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| SISTER WHEELWRIGHT AND HER EXCHANGE TO STAY IN VALDOSTA |
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| ONE OF THE TRUNK OR TREAT VANS |
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| VALDOSTA TRUNK OR TREAT- "BONES OF ELISHA", RANDOM TRICK OR TREAT GIRL |
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| GETTING READY THE TRUNK OF "ELISHA'S BONES" WEARING OUR FLASHING PUMPKIN NECKLACES! SISTERS MAXFIELD, WHEELWRIGHT, AND WAYCOTT AND MYSELF! |
MIRACLES AND EXCHANGES, OCTOBER 20, 2014
Hey Everyone!!
This has been a good week! Sister Wheelwright and I still have a few
kinks in our relationship that I'm not sure how to fix. Oh well. I will start
with Tuesday. Tuesday we had exchanges and I went to Douglas with Sister Taylor.
It was awesome! Douglas is fantastic and I love it! I want to serve there before
my mission is over. The members are great and I just had a great time there. I
loved the small-ish town. That is like the first place I have been on my mission
where I got there and I was just like I love it here! Anyway it was super fun.
Wednesday wasn't super exciting but Thursday was good! We got a media referral
last week for this guy in our ward and it is a part member family. The message
just said they wanted to learn more! So we called them and set up an appt for
Thursday. Turns out the wife is a member and the husband is not a member and has
been pretty anti their whole marriage so she hasn't come to church so that they
can kind of keep the peace. I guess the husband has struggled with some mental
health disorders and so he gets emails about various things people say about
mental health issues. He got an email that some one from the LDS church had
shared a message about mental health but he deleted the email so when he went to
watch it he wasn't sure which talk it was. He ended up watching all of the April
General Conference in one sitting! He said he did it because he was looking for
things to criticize and complain about to his wife. Instead the opposite
happened! His heart softened and he got on mormon.org and started chatting with missionaries. Then they
referred him to us and we have been teaching him and they came to church on
Sunday! It was so cool! As soon as he started sharing his experience the spirit
came into the room and it was just like BAM. It was awesome. On Saturday we went
up to Hahira (ha long a hira long i) and parked and then walked around for a few
hours. We walked quite a ways! It was really fun and we talked to some pretty
cool people. Then yesterday was good! We had another lesson with the part member
family after church and it was good. There was also another part member family
who came to church and the wife wants to learn more so we are going to start
teaching her this week! Miracles are just happening right and left here! Those
are pretty much the mail things that happened this week. Sorry this email is so
short, I feel like a slacker! This week just wasn't super eventful. It is the
last week of the transfer though! I can't believe it! It has gone by really
fast! When Elder Kopischke came he told us that we need to start memorizing
scriptures so I have been working on that! My goal is to memorize 170 scriptures
before I go home! We will see how that works out. Ha ha. I hope everyone has a
great week!
Love,
Sister Price
VALDOSTA PICTURE HIGHLIGHTS, COTTON FIELDS AND COMPANIONS! OCTOBER 20, 2014
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| MY TAN LINE! SOME HEALING SCRAPES FROM FALLING DOWN. I ESCAPED THE HORRIBLE BUG BITES THAT THE OTHER SISTERS GOT ALL SUMMER ON THEIR LEGS! |
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| I FOUND SISTER MCNEELY AT ZONE CONFERENCE IN VALDOSTA, SO GOOD TO SEE HER! |
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| SIS. WHEELWRIGHT AND I IN FRONT OF A COOL OLD HOUSE IN VALDOSTA! |
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| GOOD-BYE SISTER SEVY, I WILL MISS YOU SO MUCH!! |
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| LOVELY PURPLE BLAZER!! JUST HAD TO TAKE A PICTURE, I LOVE PURPLE! |
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| FINALLY A GEORGIAN COTTON FIELD!! VALDOSTA |
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| STAR TREK "SPOCK WEINER DOG". |
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| I TOTALLY AGREE!! |
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| MY SHOES ARE HOLDING UP, A LITTLE SQUISHED OUT THOUGH |
Monday, October 20, 2014
Crazy Week!! October 13, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Wow! This has been a super crazy week! Mary was baptized on Saturday!
We had to teach her everything in a week and a half! It was crazy! We taught
like 4 lessons in one night! The member we had with us was a total trooper and
went along with the whole thing. She just wants to know everything! She is way
cool. Ok so now I will go by one day at a time because it is easier to remember
things that way. Not that I can remember anything as it is. My companion says I
have a freakish memory of all the rules and every training I have ever heard
about anything so I guess that is crowding out all other information in my
brain! I guess it's like when I had a freakish memory of so many things at the
pharmacy. Now I forgot what I was going to say. Alright well we will start with
Monday. Monday we went to see Tina to see how she was doing and on Monday she
was doing well! We saw one of the recent converts named Barbara and she told us
the person who is also a recent convert who rents a room from her named Wilbert
was in the hospital because he had a stroke! Now he is in an assisted living
facility. He is recovering a lot faster than they thought he would so that is
good. Tuesday is when we taught the marathon lesson to Mary. I had a huge
headache after that was over! We taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Tithing
and fast offerings, Word of wisdom and law of chastity! It was crazy. Wednesday
we were supposed to have a lesson with Tina on Wednesday but she wasn't there
and she wasn't answering her phone! This is the start of the drama that was Tina
this week! Just wait, it gets better. Wednesday evening Mary had her baptismal
interview. She passed of course. Thursday we had ZTM. It was ok! Not the best
that I have been to but that's ok. I got to see Sister McNeely again! That was
fun. We also got a brand new car! I guess mission cars get sold when they get
over 50,000 miles and ours was over that so on Thursday we got a brand new 2015
Toyota Corolla! It is super duper nice! Although the new car smell does make me
slightly naseous sometimes. We had dinner with the Bishops family that day and
Bishop was telling us all sorts of crazy stories about his mission! He went to
the same mission in Taiwan his parents had been mission presidents of. Then
while he was on his mission his parents got called to be the temple president of
the temple in Taiwan and for the last 6 months of his mission he lived in the
same apartment complex as his parents! There were just all sorts of crazy
stories. Then life was pretty calm until Saturday afternoon. Saturday morning
was really nice, we had Mary's baptism and it was just great. We were feeling
great and happy and then in the afternoon we got a call from this sister in the
ward saying she was on her way to pick up Tina for her baptism! Mind you we
hadn't been able to get in touch with Tina since Monday and had not been
planning for her to be baptized! It was a huge mess and we got majorly chewed
out by the member for not letting her know, which was partially our fault but we
didn't know she was going to pick Tina up so not all our fault! She had a lot of
other things stressing her out so mostly she just kind of needed to rant. She is
an interesting lady so we just let her vent. I kind of felt like I was back at
the pharmacy. Well we ended up baptizing Tina Sunday after church because she
didn't want to wait a whole week! We also baptized her daughter. So lots of
prayers for them that they make it through this week and to church next Sunday
so they can be confirmed! That was basically my crazy week! I am running a
little short on time so there isn't a spiritual thought this week! I will just
challenge everyone to choose one thing from conference to work on and improve!
That is my week in a nutshell! Have a great week everyone and I love you
all!
Love,
Sister Price
VALDOSTA-NEW AREA, LEAVING COLUMBUS AND GREAT PEOPLE! October 6, 2014
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| I FOUND SISTER MCNEELY AT OUR VALDOSTA ZONE CONFERENCE! |
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| NEW COMPANION SISTER WHEELWRIGHT-VALDOSTA AREA |
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| GOOD-BYE TO SISTER SEVY! YOU ARE AWESOME! I WILL MISS YOU SO-SO MUCH!! |
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| GOOD-BYE TO THE FABULOUS LEE FAMILY!! YOU ARE SO BLESSED! I WILL MISS YOU! |
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| A "PURPLE BLAZER"!! |
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| FINALLY A SOUTHERN COTTON FIELD!! VALDOSTA, GEORGIA |
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| CUTE KNICK-KNACK I SAW |
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| TRUE SIGN, JUST A BIT OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE NEEDED! |
ONE YEAR!! OCTOBER 6, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Love,
Ok. I am trying to remember my week. It seems like the longer I am out
the harder it is to remember anything including what happened last week. I guess
that is why journals are so important! The old man whose house we helped clean
passed his house inspection so he gets to stay living in his house. We had zone
conference on Friday! That was really good! Wednesday we had a really busy day!
We taught Tina and talked with her daughter. Her daughter just turned eight so
they are deciding if she wants to get baptized the same day as her mom. Tina's
baptism is scheduled for Saturday so hopefully they make the decision soon! We
also had dinner with a family and a referral! It was so awesome. The referral's
name is Mary. She has been lots of religions and has been researching things for
a long time. She said she has kind of had contact with the LDS church and has
observed people over the years. I guess one day she went up to Sister Ruddle
(she is a member) and asked her if she was LDS and if she could go to church
with her! We taught her and she wants to be baptized this week! We have a lot to
teach her but she is really great! She came to conference and she loved it! The
weather has also been great this week. It was super humid the until Saturday and
we went out Saturday and it was nice and cool and I didn't feel like I needed
gills to breathe! It was amazing! I think I have officially survived my summer
in Georgia! I hope to never have to go through that again. Once is more than
enough. I'm not cut out for this kind of climate. Zone conference on Friday was
great! I got to see Sister McNeely and that was fun! She looks really good.
President was seeing how well we knew the scriptures so he was calling people up
to role-play and I got called! I wasn't sitting by Sister Wheelwright because
there wasn't enough room so I was sitting right behind her. He called my name
and then he paused for a minute and said Sister Trout was going to come up with
me! He must have noticed that we had kind of shocked looks on our faces because
he said "wait you aren't companions?" and we were like nope! He said maybe it
was inspiration. It went really well though! He had questions about resurrection
so we read Alma 40 when Alma is talking to Corianton and talked about that.
Elder Poti (one of the assistants) said that it was one of the best role plays
he had seen in the zone conferences so I guess that was good! I was super
nervous and was really glad when it was over! We also got to do something else
really cool but President asked us not to talk about it for a few weeks so that
will be in a future email. :) Conference was awesome! I loved all of the talks!
I loved Elder Robbins and how he talked about not letting the fear of man and
the world sway you and cause you to lower your standards. When he said that
lowering standards was a form of apostasy I was like oh wow! He isn't sugar
coating anything! It was awesome though. I also really loved Elder
Christofferson! I loved all of the talks about agency and how we choose who we
become. There were a lot of people who talked about that. Helaman 5:12 was
brought up a lot! I super loved Elder Klebingot's talk! I can't pronounce his
name to save my life but I loved his talk! I love how practically he said we
could apply the atonement in our lives. I loved how he talked about taking
responsibility for our actions. I also liked what he said about repentance and
how we need to be really good at it! I also liked what he said about
forgiveness, how we need to be really, really good at that and don't ever think
we are exempt from forgiving others! Basically I just loved everything about his
talk and I just want to listen to it over and over! I loved President Eyring's
talk about personal revelation! I love all of the examples from the scriptures
that were given. I also loved all of the talks about the prophet and the leaders
and how they are called and chosen and how it's impossible for them to lead us
astray! My favorite at the end was Elder Bednar's! I just want to show that to
everyone we talk to! Tell them that is why we do what we do and sometimes it is
super awkward but it's just because we love you and we love Jesus even more!
Seriously, everyone need to see that talk. I hope everyone loved conference as
much as I did! I challenge everyone to take a principle you liked from
conference and work hard to apply it more in your life. I know that you will be
blessed and have the Holy Ghost with you more consistently as you do so! I love
all of you and hope you have a super week!
Love,
Sister Price
Ok, I can't keep a secret, we got to see "Meet the Mormons", it was really good, I recommend it!!
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