my first saved soul

omg guys this week has just FLOWN on by! like i feel like i was just on email. thats a good thing i guess. it was just a magical, splended week. lemme fill you in on all the gloriousness. so on monday we played pday sports outside at the park cause you know its november and the sun is still shinning and its hot out. normal. then that night we just did some regular missionary work and got free homemade granola. so fun! omg i forgot that i email on tuesday! so anyways after email one of the members made us lunch, yum! we had a bunch of lessons and its way fun to have all the lessons because you stay busy. we took away some of our investigators chew and yelled at him and said that we just want him to be healthy and the next time we saw him he was done wit da chew!!! yay word of wisdom! on wednesday we had district meeting and then we went to carls junior for lunch. thats the good thing about being a missionary in the states... you still get all the good american fast food. #diabetes. then we went knocking but like no one was home or everyone else said no. hahah what?! we have a great message to share...be home people! on thursday there was a relief socitey activity that we went to. it was a big thanksgiving dinner! they wanted one for all the woman so they could enjoy the food without cooking it. it was reallllly good! it was the only dinner we had all week. can you believe people would just let us poor sisters starve! lol jk its fine...i had cereal and it was suffient. on friday we had some good lessons, ya know helping people find all the answers to their questions. we taught xemora and it was the day before her baptism and she was soooo excited. she said that she has been smiling all day. she practiced her testimony in front of us and i swear she knows the scriptures better than i do! she also said that at the end of her testimony she is going to say that me and sister call are going to marry elder daley and elder williamson...so i was like lol do it i dare you toooo!!! saturday was sooooo fun! in the morning we went to super saturday and made such fun crafts! i made special suprises for my family so lol duh i cant tell you what i made...just know that they are so stinkin cute and you will die of loving me! then after crafty time we had to get ready for the baptism. omg stressful. so we get to the church and start filling up the tub. okay check. but the library is locked and we have to print out the programs! ahhh! so then we had to go all the way to staples and get them printed and of course they take forever...the water is still running. im just like grreeeeaat, the tub is going to overflow. all the while pictures from my baptism are flashing through my head (thank you uncle scott for letting the tub overflow). so we are leaving staples and suzan, xemoras mom, calls and shes like the tub is almost to the top and we are like PULL THE PLUG. ugh! okay so everything turned out great! the baptism was so speacial. a little hectic cause the bishop forgot. oh well. she got baptize and made that covenant with the lord and thats all that matters. then later that night we stopped at our investigators house...theyve been struggling a bit and they were like when are we getting baptized and were like when you come to church!! needless to say they were there the next day. such a great and successfull week. i hope more is to come!! thanks for all the prayers and support! love you guys! have a great week.

sister butcherite

lol tucson

sis call<3

funnnnnn baptism!

little boy that looks like ryder. so cute!

5 months out hommies!

today marks my 5 months out on my mission. lol thats crazy...i still feel really young and like that i dont know that much stuff. obvi i do but i  just dont want to have any responsibilities yet. soooo lets see what happened this week. on monday we had to get groceries on our bikes. omg we just looked so rediculous with the bags on the side of our bikes. oh well. then after pday sports and stuff a member took us out to dinner at dennys and lol they got my order wrong so we got FREE DESSERT! so fun! on tuesday we were still on bikes and we rode like legit 30 miles....im not even playin with you guys! such a great butt and thigh work out. we met with our recent convert jean and we were talking about patriarchal blessings and we were like lol so jean are you gonna get yours and shes like "no, all theyre gonna tell me is that im gonna die soon." ROFL! she is the funniest 80 year old woman that i know. on wednesday we had a zone trainig which took a little bit of the day. it was a great training though. about how we need to get referrals from the members in the ward. guys give the missionaries referrals and they will straight up worship you!!! just do it. we also just talked about why we came on a mission and what we are here to do. it was really good and put my mind in perspective. i needa be the best missionary that i can. soooo any ways on wednesday night i was like okay we need to call the car place to make sure we can get the car tomorrow cause ive had it up to here with riding these bikes. so we call and shes like "ohhhh lol your cars been done for 2 days." -_________- YOUVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! ughhh oh well, we got some good exercise in and it wasnt that bad. so on thursday we went to go get the car and it was just pure bliss...i love my car! then for lunch one of the members took us to burger king. HOLLLLA! shes the nicest lady ive ever met. all the members in this ward are great though. we were able to teach a couple of our investigators that night and see how the gospel is blessing their lives and i love that they can see a difference and feel the spirit in their home as they learn more. so fun! on saturday tucson was having this big mormon heritage festival thing and all the missionaries form the tucson zones were able to go and help out. it was so fun to see all the activites and see the mormon heritage and talk with all the homies in the mission. it was such a fun day! lol omg i dont have that much time left. but xemora gets baptized this weekend and we are so exctied for her. she is soooo sassy and fun and i just love her. every time we visit shes like "i wish you guys were my real sisters" awwww shes so cute and then she was so excited to tell us she already had her tithing set aside for this next week. pictures to come next week! love you guys have a great week! its still hot and sunny but like im getting tan!

love sister butcherite

bruises from the bike -_-

way legit sign

i love pancakes

omg sister butcherite on jennie place

our doll we made at the festival

omg sister winkler!

all my girls together again!

Tha durrrtyyy south

omg hi family and friends, how is everyone! this week was way fun and different. on tuesday we started teaching our recent converts daughter. shes 9 so its fun to see how we can adjust the lessons to be interesting to her! shes so great and has a date for november 16th to be baptized. im sure about this one. on wednesday we were able to meet our new zone which was fun. sister winkler, who was in my mtc district, is in our zone and i absolutely adore her so i was way excited. lol attractive elders.  omg then on thursday we had to take our car in to the shop to get fixed so you know what that means.....BIKES!!! our elders in the ward just got a car and so they let us borrow their bikes for a week. omg bikes are fun for about .32 secods but then you start your first hill and just scream "take me now good lord" omg my legs were BURRRNINNNNN. it took us like 40 minutes to get to our dinner appt. k side note, some one next to me is super gassssy and im like ew you needa take your bum outside....hope i can make it through this letter without passing out. anyways, so we got our dinner and anyone who knows me well knows that i sweat like a hog. and thats exactly what i looked like when we showed up. it wasnt even funny it was like "Oh do you need a towel?" yeah whatever. then after dinner we got to go home at 7 because hey its halloween. so fun! me and sis call just messed around at home. we have so much fun together!! its nuts. on friday we taught some people and taught the plan of salvation to xemora (9 year old) it was really interesting. see the pictures below. we are such fun missionaries. im obsessed with us. keep in mind we are riding bikes all day....i just want you guys to feel sorry for me rite now. on sunday we had to ride to the ghetto and then we stopped at a gas station because we were both sweaty and thirsty then some one gave us money!! lol we didnt accept it at first but she really wanted to give us something. #freemtdew. so fun! then we helped our investigator clean her house. im such a good cleaner....thanks mom. lol wut? then we got pizza for dinnnnnner. i <3 pizza. on sunday...omg you dont want to know about sunday. our church is like 10 miles away hillls the whole time. so we show up and im bleeding and sweating and my hair looks aweful. i literally had to repent because i looked so bad on the lord holy day. AND it was fast sunday. i better have lost like 39 pounds yesturday. -__________- ugh bikes till thursday. but i know that the lord gives me strength. seriously couldnt do this if i wasnt on his errand. the lord helps all his children in so many ways but especially missionaries. so greatful for all of our blessings. look past the little thing and gain and eteranl perspective guys. i love you all and have a great week. 2 nephi 31:20 ENDURE TO THE END! loveee sista b

just tryna cool down before we go to dinner. ew

ewwwwwwwww

plan of salvation for 9 year old

sis call <3

Transfer #4 lol

another week is come and goonnneee! so fun. on monday we had pday sports and played dodge ball but im like lol scared because the elders get way to into it and throw way too hard. lol im a girl so like could you not. ya feel me? then that night we went on exchanges. i stayed in the area and sister ballard came to be with me (no there isnt any relation) shes way sweet and chill and is so lucky because shes been in the ysa for 6 months -_______- i wish!! it was a fun and busy day, visited alot of people which is great. listen to the funniest thing i have ever heard. so we were visiting one of our recent converts whos husband is dead and she is/was so in love with him like notebook style. so she is giving us a little tour of her home and she has all these risque pictures of women on her walls in her bed room and im just like "lol jean what the?!" and shes like "i didnt really care where frank got his appetite as long as he came home for dinner" OMDASOFHDSOIGHADOSGH WUT?!!?!?! I DIED!! LIKE ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING. shes like 85 years old and soooooo tight! omg i am in love with this woman. then on wednesday we had some meetings and went to a relief society activity at night, it was really nice and uplifing and stuff. on thursday we went walking a bunch because we still have no miles on our car and of course its arizona so its still 90 outside at the end of october. sweating like a beast but i dont even care anymore. then we just had a bunch of people to see and i was gross and salty lol. what did i do on friday hmmmmmmmm, umm we washed some dishes for a lday and visted jean!! fun and umm talked with some less actives that have the biggest testimonies but just wont come to church! ugh so sad!! then on saturday we went to our investigators and he made us speghetti (lol i dont even know how to spell any more  oh well) hes a way decent cook. then we visited santa!! this old couple in our ward and he is legit santa. i believe in santa again because i know its him. then it was stake conference that night and bishop davies from the presiding bishopric was there. he is GREAT speaker. tons of stories. lol like dad! he was great. the hole stake conference was about hastening the work! CMON GUYS! DO YOU GET THE MESSAGE OR WUT! jk just invite people to church or something. on sunday we had stake conference again and visited some people and had a great mexican dinner so fun! NOW FOR THE BIG NEWS! sunday night me and sister call are just waiting and waiting for calls then our ZLs text us and theyre like "you guys are staying together so you can go to bed now" SOOOOOOOOOO FUN, WE WERE SO HAPPY AND JUST JUMP AROUND SCREAMING! im so excited because sis call is so fun. haha she will spend 6 months in this area but she loves it. then on monday we had zone pictures. transfers are so hard because you get so close to all the people in your area and just are gonna miss them you know! but i can tell this is going to be a GREAT transfer so pumped. last night we went to our recent converts house and her daughter is just waiting there with her book of mormon and is like im ready! pumped! we taught her lesson one and she is getting baptized on the 16th and is sooo excited. i love this little girl. she is full of sass and is so fun. we are going to have to adapt some of the lessons to be more kid friendly but that will be fun! okay thats it over here in tucson. pray that the weather cools down or i just might not make it. love you alllllll!

my camera died so this is the only pic with sister ballard

puppies!

my district

the sisters

west side!

LOL, How hard is missionary work?

so this week was...interesting. on monday i got some new clothes with the money from birthday! so fun. thank you grandparents butcherite and granny. then since it was really pretty outside we played pday sports outside. the elders dont think the sister can play so like me and sister call just ran around the field acting like idiots "OMG GUYS PASS THE BALL OVER HERE! LOL HEEYYYY IM OPEN!!" yeah, they never passed it. then for dinner we went out to a legit mexican place. way gooooood. on tuesday we pretty much had appointments all day which was great. we went knocking and knocked into a members house and since i dont really know all the members i like give the whole presentation and shes like "well weve been mormon for generations but like okay" and im just like -___________- EMBARRASSING! that night we went to see our investigator who dropped thier baptism and they are still ON they want to continue but just have to get things figured out. the ward is great and so supportive though. then on wednesday we had distict meeting and nothing too special. lol missionary work same ol same ol. then thursday came......it was literally an aweful day. we went to like 7 houses all over the area and NO ONE WAS HOME!!!! it was so aweful. but it just comes with the job i guess. but that night we went to dinner at our recent converts house and her daughter said to me "when are you and sister call going to teach me about church" SCORE!! shes so cute and sassy and ready for baptism. stoked man. okay now friday. so as missionaries with cars, we are allotted only 1300 miles a month and our area is huge and our stake center is liek 20 miles away so by friday we had 60 miles thats supposed to last till this friday. lol not gonna happen. so we were just like lets walk. okay fun lets do it. so we walk to pats....a like 10 mile walk. it was redddddiiiiculous! we were so pumped at first, by the time we got home my feet were recked. like i think bursted som blood vessels and i have like 7 blisters. fun -_-. then we went to golden corrals for dinner. legit so good. worship. saturday was pretty good! we had a stake service project and we were supposed to clean out a wash....washes are just big long ditches that fill up with water when monsoon season comes because arizona has no irrigation system whatsoever. so we cleaned that up and there was so much hobo stuff and beer bottles. FUN! then there was a bbq afta and we just chilled and had a grand ol time. the weather was beautiful....a nice 85 out. on sunday we walked to church and im like lol my feet hurt but im way tough and cute so i did it. then im at church just talking to this guy and were just chattin and hes like im from lindon and im like oh do you know the nichols (like brandon or brad or brock lol) and hes like i went to school with their oldest brother FUN! and then we was like and brother gabbitas is their uncle. LOL WUT!? I WAS SO STOKED! so we had dinner at their house last night and just talked about all the fun connections. the nichols told me that she had a brother in tucson but i was like lol k ill never meet him and ive been in the same ward for 5 weeks. mormon connections are the best. k anyways i gotta go. the work is still slow but progressing. we are working and tryin our hardest. have a great week and talk to someone new about the gospel! everyone! lets do this, 1 person by christmas! have a great week. love you allllllllllll!

gabbatis family aka nichols uncle aka such a fun family love them

golden corral had COTTON CANDY. sweet. lol elder porter looks like hes 12

i traded a bom for this cross. lol charity right

the start of the walk...that smile was not there at the end

lol look at these fun glasses

Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!

so this weeek suckkkkkkedddd! the below picture basically sums everything up. so on monday night we go over to the family that was getting baptized this week. right when we get there they are sitting outside and i can already tell that something isnt right. welllll, i was correct. she comes up to us and tells us that she had started smoking again and doesnt want to get baptized unworthy, which is great, but just sad. also the son told us that he had a dream that his grandpa told him he cant trust mormons. so hes done 4ever. THAT SUXXXX. so basically we just went home and cried it was aweful. we are going to visit them for the first time tonight to see where they are at with everything so hopefully it will go good. on tuesday we were able to get a ton of music burnt onto cds so we have all the fun church music and DINSSSSNEY lol hey wassup, lil mermaid. also that night we went to an activity day girls thing to show our talents. needless to say i have little talent so i just braided the girls hairs. FUN! on wednesday we had a huge zone training and then me and sis call had to go to the car place to get an estimate on the damage....almost $3000 in damages! DANNNNG. that night we went on exchanges and i was in the area and an asian sister came here. lol soooo fun i love her! also that day was cold! like 70's and beautiful. i loved it. so excited for the winter months to come. on friday we went to do alot of finding because we literally have like 0 investigators and need a fresh batch. but missionary work isnt easy so we found approximately zerrrrrrooooo. yayayayya! -____- but then we found some mormons at a gas station so like, that was fun. on saturday we met with alot of less actives, because thats all that we can do at this point. then we went to dinner and the family was playing just dance 4 and guys what they were dancing tooooo? lol one direction! i needed that real bad. i luv them. omg jk im a missionary. yesturday was great because church>>> so its like fast and testimony meeting right and this like 3 year old boy gets up and is like "i would like to bare my testimony on tithing. i know that its true because i prayed to heavely father and the holy ghost gave me a warm feeling. tithing is true. i would also like to bare my testimony on resurrection. in the name of jesus christ amen." LIKE WHAT?! i didnt even know what resurrection was until like june. this kid blew my mind. then we had a great mexican fiesta for dinner. omg guys this week was the worst when it comes to missionary work! pray for people that we can find. we need all the prayers we can get! i love you all and miss you like nobodys biznas! have a great week!

xoxo sista b

this week was like this

happy 4 months to usssss. cake lol

look how cold! praises

so hood in a leather robe

Whata week!

okay i dont know what happened so ill just put the whole thing on here:

 

first of all i just need to say how much i freaking love everyone! seriously you guys, i am so blessed to have everyone of you in my life. this was probably one of the best birthdays ever! lol ima go on a mission every october 1st....hahaha probs not but it was great. heres how the week went. on monday we played freaking dodge ball at pday sports. it was way legit. me and sis call are straight homies and tagged teamed everyone and she took a doge ball to the belly for me....love her. then came the BIG DAY! i wasnt even upset to wake up at 6:30 i like popped outta bed and said YAAAAAAAYYYY BIRTHDAY! then i opened my fun birthday package from moooommmma! lol and dad but we all know that mom put it together. i loved the dress mom! so cute i wore it that day and the bracelet lol you know me so well. the day was so great. a member took us out to dinner at a chinese buffett and i was like lol OKAY THANKS! then we had a couple of lessons. our dinner appointment dropped but it was okay. we went home and i had a package from some lady i didnt even know and my main gurrrrrl BFEUZ. lemme tell you a little thing about this girl...she got all the homies to write me. like 20 letters from all the provo friends in one package proclaiming their love for me! it was seriously the best thing of my life. exactly what i would have wanted. and the mysterious lady box was COOOOOOOOKIEEESS! they were so cute. thanks mom u daaaa best! then we went to see our investigators and they made me cake. so tight CAKECAKECAKECAKECAKE. on wednesday a member took us out to lunch. so tight once again. and then we went walking for like 3 hours and of course it is still 100 degrees out so i literally was soooooooo sweaty it was a mess. heres a pic. ew. then our black investigator made us RIBS! so fun and so black. hes a way decent cook. also my asain elder friend made the weirdest asian food for us. i was just like -___________- the whole time i was eating it. on saturdy was conference and of course i was loving it. they were all so good and diverse like all over the place but great. how can any one deny this truth. these men are so inspired and know jesus!!! i love uchtdorf....doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. awesome! and like women just need to stop trippin because the priesthood is ordained from god and given to worthy men for AAALLLL to recieve the blessings. come on women dont be dumb. we have the power to create LIFE!! that is so sacred so appreciate it! okay okay and like how cute is our prophet he loves his wife so much and hes so cute. also lol who saw the fly on that one guys face!? i was rofling all over the floor when that happened omg im almost outta time. but on saturday we got in a car crash lol it was so tight. no one was hurt and it was minor. but still oooops. i wasnt driving though. its all good. im stuck driving again though. yaya for missionary adventures. i have a baptism this week so it should be great. im really excited for this family! they know its so true! i love you all so much! have a great week!

love sista b

birthday fun!!!

fun cookies

sooo sweaty

omg how funny was this guy in the motab

car crashhh