5 more weeks

I think just snow college :) (mom insert - I asked Sis Cole what other colleges besides Snow College she was interested in.) and thanks for filling out the FASFA :) I was told by some missionaries it would help us out ALOT! lol so I hope we can qualify for it :).
New years was ok (even though I was sleeping) my companions felt a bit weird about sleeping on New years but its there first new years and would possibly have to do it again this year too (well Sister Thompson might I discover she leave next February year lol)

Things are going good :) President ask me to "Sprint" home which basically is do your hardest before you go home so i am going to hopefully Sprint as much as i can :). 

Sorry the car not working I hope we get it fixed so we don't have to grieved buying another car... (can the new car have a TV this time??0 lol Just Kidding Just Kidding. 

 In my Past companionship who were leaving usually the parents get them possibly a 2-3 weeks before the missionary leaves and gets their's too don't worry it will come its still the beginning of the new transfer :) 

 On T-day we went to the Duck Commander Shop :) It was cool and big and the shop was hidden behind a Garage door that was closed but the Elders were determine to meet at least one of the Famous Duck Dynasters and at least have something signed... 
Well they were able to meet one of the them but not the originals one unlike me ;P hehe Willie Robertson :) 

 I am sending a postcard to taiason to help her out a bit and I bought Bapa this really awesome tie I found so he can represent me of my mission :) this is their Logo so Bapa will remember my mission :P

Christmas and Thoughts of Home

The past few notes have been about school and what Sis Cole's plans will be after she returns home.  Right now her hope is to attend Snow College in UT, starting Fall 2015.  Until then she will try to get a job and work to save money.

Hey mom
So it like 6:41 am and the missionaries should "just" be getting up... Well I woke up at 3 in the morning to take Sister McMurtry to the airport and to see her go off into the halls after she was scanned and everything. It was very sad to see her go, but she told me something that hopefully it will be with me forever and no longer will ever come back :). "You are beautiful Sister Cole" couldn't made my day :). Hopefully i finally learned to love who I am when i come home and not worry about the "society says"

Last week i mention about our adventure with a puppy and so far what i have been hearing he doing really good and they renamed him Joesph for an ironic name of LDS missionaries saving him :), with a help of little kids waving us down :) I will forward the picture of him from the people we gave him to, to be taken care of. Turns out he is also potty trained too ;) ;) ;) lol.  
This week was kinda a blurred moment but we were able to accomplish many things. 
We even met the johns family who owns both Big John Burger and Boogalies also (we met them the same day as the dog rescue) and caroled to them. They loved it so much that they posted it on Facebook and everyone they know saw us caroling to the johns and people commented how we too came and sang to them. It was a wonderful experience and a great blessing was when we lost Sister Thompson purse (which was on top of the car while we were driving and it fell out) 
Someone commented on the Facebook page that they had our purse and they took it to the Sheriff department. What they didn't know that at that same time we were freaking out about what to do and prayed to heavenly father for some miracle, the Sheriff Department just called and told us they have our purse and we rejoiced with the wonderful miraculous day. we then came back to see them and sang again and they love us :) 
 Friday night our church had a White Elephant party and I won a camera for a smart phone i might mail it home as a Christmas gift ;) Or possibly keep it till i come home.  
 Sunday Sister McMurtry gave a talk about the new video "he is the gift" and also mixed it n as her goodbye talk too. Well my mind is blank and i should possibly try to get some naps here and there but i will be back on possibly and hopefully :) I can't wait till Christmas love y'all bye!

Dec 30, 2014
I was so happy to see y'all and now i really can't wait to come home. :) I forgot to tell Tariyah "thank you" for the watch and perfume and lotion i love it :), and thanks everyone for the gifts and pictures and many more! I am soon going to write to the church for the gifts too. Well things been a bit hectic and not many wonderful things had happen but I am glad for a wonderful last mission christmas and see you all soon bye

Movin' on...

When the age change was announced in 2012 there was a great increase in Missionaries, especially with the Sister missionaries.  18mos - 2yrs is now rolling around and a lot of that influx of missionaries are going home and numbers have balanced out in different areas.  The number of missionaries over all is still up around 80,000, but with new missions and Visa's finally being accepted, some missions have lost a lot of missionaries.  Mississippi is one of them.

Hey mom we got permission to email cause Sister McMurtry had important emailing to do plus I thought I should give you a heads up on something... Wesson is closing down and me and Sister McMurtry together will go to Winnsboro together!!! with another Sister there! Apparently there is a very lack on Sister Missionaries and we are losing alot of them these upcoming transfer so Wesson has to go down. :( we will be very sad bu ti am grateful I will go back to an location I am familiar with and hopefully the last area i be in so i can settle down and think about what to leave behind or get rid of and what to keep and take home.... Speaking of take home I may need some cash to mail things home...I got something for the family and it was given to me as a gift and I can't leave it behind...but I am not going to share what it is ;) haha. So I will be in Winnsboro so mail things over there ok??? And can you tell Meema for me??? We won't have anyone bring mail to us cause nobody will be there and the Elders says they will check but chances of getting those back are rare. I love you and I will write my weekly report!

This week was sorta full of miracles and I can't remember them very well and I don't have my booklet with me with those Miracles but i must say it was a Miraculous Week.
Well I don't have much to say but see y'all till Tuesday

Misunderstandings and Pictures

Here are a few pictures she took for me, she was trying to get a good one for her Missionary Plaque at church, but I had already settled on another picture.

Oct 27, 2014

This week was really good but it was destroyed by someone who wasn't very nice but I will "shave" it for later (thought I pull some jokes on this report.) 

Anyways! It was a really good week, we met a wonderful lady we were blessed to meet when we and my companion were at a apartment complex park making phone calls and deciding what to do cause we didn't know what to do since everything was falling apart. And this lady was watching us and reading a book and soon ask us to have a glass of something to drink, and we gladly accept it. while we sat and talk she really "mustache" a question to us and ask us what were we doing. 

We explain what we are doing and she broke down a bit and told us everything about her life (which I will not go into details about) but she was having a hard time with life and we stayed and talk to her and shared some thing with her. She was grateful for our stay and gave me a Mary clock (which i needed a clock for my bathroom) and Sister McMurtry a really cute Quote picture :). We are going to see her today in fact later actually :) so Pray for us! 

 Now what made this week a bit sad was on Saturday me and Sister McMurtry didn't know what to do so we tracked in one of our members area and we did and everyone ignore us since the Mississippi Football game was going on and we been shooed or slammed on and it was very dark but we were behind on tracting. 

We saw a family come home and we hastely run over and knocked the door to find out the family was someone we met at the Flea market and he wasn't kinda nice a bit and told us he wasn't interest and he ask us to visit his church and left us at the doorstep. Well just to say short... On Church on Sunday, one of our members pulled us aside and shared a very unhappy Facebook Status from her Neighbors (the family we met) and how we didn't want to listen to there message and many more lies. She wasn't very happy with the post her neighbor gave to everyone to see.  And it made my week a very bad week in fact. But I tried to move on and forgive the man :). well I don't have anything else, I love you :)

Wesson, MS

The move to Wesson, MS

 Oct 8, 2014 
 So my address is 1020 Hill St Lot 26 Wesson MS 39191. And I am living in a TRAILER PARK with a trailer named Benny, and I will say I was freaking out a bit cause I am literally in middle of nowhere, and there are ROACHES not really everywhere like here and there. I was told to be more grateful cause it used to be even worst before and I have the best time period with Benny. Haha. 

My companions are Sister McMurtry who from Idaho and she really funny and awesome and happy go lucky we got along really great after doing some quotes and funny stunts :), and my other companion Sister Quilty who from Canada yay. Sadly she doesn't go "eh" lol but she really cool too and showed us the new Canadian money which is made out of PLASTIC!! Whoa America needs to pick up our game. It was cool and it seem like to be alot better living environment cause image if you fell into a river with your wallet well your paper money is toast.. but not your plastic ones :D haha. 

Guess what who emailed me??? Jolena! Haha nice to hear from her and how she is doing :) I remembered I still have her sticker which is a memory token of when she was showing us something and I remember what anime show that was and laughed my butt off while my poor companion were confused what was going on. ( I think I shared that story before) Well I will do alot better Weekly updating y'all love ya. 

Oct 12, 2014
 It is like Newport (mom insert - she really means Northport, WA where I grew up, Newport WA is small too, but not as small and she wouldn't know, ha ha), very small and unlike Newport there is really no Walmart around here (mom insert - there is no Walmart in Northport either, I think at this point she is thinking about Colville which is about 40miles away, it's been a while since she has been there, ha ha). We have great food places and antique shops around here but nothing else. I am slowly learning to just squish the Roaches with my hands but i am working on stomping them haha. 

President McDonough is traveling around with Interviews and also bringing the movie with him so we can watch the movie since we are not allowed to go to the movies and the closes movie theater that has the movie is Vicksburg which is a 2 hour drive.... not worth the miles and I am not biking here in Wesson... Hills are certainly not a biker friend...lol 

 I notice you haven't updated my blog...please do. 

 I am doing well so far and I will :) with a few jokes along the way. Btw we are sadly losing Sister Quilty. Apparently a Sister in West Monroe companion never showed up at T-point and turns out her companion left the mission for medical reason. we were so sad but I got a memory token of a Canada keychain :) now I never forget Sister Quilty :).  

 So remember that Nerd Minnie pen you got me??? well it is falling apart and I can no longer fix it anymore as much as I can and I was wondering if I can have a new one :) since you love me??? can it be a different character??? and I was wondering if I can have a new camera too?? if not i understand and I wait till I come home and afford one of my own. The members here are really lovely and very nice and i love them alot. I got some pictures you can choose and I will email them next week cause i don't have my flashdrive that has them with me atm.  Well My mind is blank and I love you lots, Please pray for me I been having trouble not being Full-Missionary with worries about college and school supplies and buying a laptop and stuff :( heh so pray for me. 

 Oct 20, 2014 
We recently lost sister Quilty, who had to go to West Monroe due to a sister who lost her companion for medical reasons. We had to give her up last Monday actually :(. Me and Sister Mcmurtry were really sad about it. 

We met Elder Zwick again (of the 70). We had to sleep over at the Sister training leaders house so we can make it to our ride at Brandon to see Elder Zwick.Well we nearly got lost and almost lost our ride to the meeting but we finally found it and turns out a different set of missionaries were even more late so we had to wait for them. 

The most cool thing is that we are finally allowed to have iPad's, hopefully by the Lord will, I possibly get one (wink wink Mama and Bapa lol :).
But I still got a long wait before then, we possibly get them on December. 

 We help a Lady bring her books in for the Flea market Festival and in return she bought us Ice Cream and we talk a bit, and thanked her for the ice cream :) 
Another thing that had happen was the Flea Market Festival! it was awesome we had help the Boy scouts before the day started by making "chicken on a stick (looks like a Kobob to me) but they were delicious.

A little More of Biloxi and then on to Wesson.

Her time in Biloxi was short, but here a little about what she had to say, sounds like it is a beautiful area.

Sept 2, 2014
So being here in Biloxi is really neat it so peaceful and the ocean not that far at all! we went to go shopping at walmart and I look over only to see the ocean in the Distance. It was really pretty and I loved it, but having gotten to there yet :). Biloxi looks like a nice place to move possibly ;) haha   The Members here are really great they feed us really good and they really take missionary work very seriously so i am happy to see such great work taking action :). Me and my companions been having a hard time finding ayone but we won't give up that easy :). I am super excited :) 

At Sis Riley's home

Oct 7, 2014
Well guess what...I MOVED!!! I am going to Wesson Mississippi, I don't have the address yet, but ya :)
I am sorry i didn't given you weekly reports about Biloxi it just not that great of things happen and me and my companions didn't do so well (well one of the companions and me the other was ok) So I didn't have good stories to share but I will share i went to a confederate house of Jefferson Davis house :) I want to take you guys there when we do a family road trip, and see other things too since i didn't stay in Biloxi long enough there was so much i wanted to do that i never got to do. Hopefully i will stay on top of my mission cause it was hard being with tons of missionaries who were leaving the next upcoming transfer so they been talking about home :) thanks for keep on reminding me who i need to be right now :D well i still don't have the address i promise I will give it to you or mail you it cause i was told the Library in Wesson closes at lunch.. stupid huh??? well I love you

On to Biloxi, MS

5 more months...she is feeling the pressure of the Mission winding down.  At this point, part of her interviews with her Mission President are to help prepare her to come home. Help her to plan and to think about what she will do when she gets here.  I am told it is a big adjustment and sometimes they feel lost.  I hope to learn how to help her in the process.

She has decided she wants to attend Snow College in UT, so we have been doing a bit of correspondance on that subject.  She will need to be prepared to take her SAT and ACT when she gets back, in preparation.

She has been transferred...
her new address is:
1995 Popps Ferry Rd
Apt. Q1091
Biloxi, MS 39042

So many things had happen but i will start with... i was called to Biloxi North with a bunch of the members as Military, so I need a renewed ID :). But my new companions are Sister Banidawa and she is from FIJI wow that a culture shock to me my first out of this country companion :p haha. She really awesome and it is hard to understand her but if you listen well you can understand her :), Then i have Sister Carter from Utah, as usual lol.

So our apartment is really beautiful and even has a island in the kitchen i was so happy and everything was so nice and new :) but this morning I was getting out of the shower and sister Banidawa was getting ready so i decided to get ready in the closet and i close the doors and realized i left something i needed so i turned around to leave the closet real quick and there was no door knob.... I locked myself in the closet.... I called out and Sister Banidawa heard me and laughed ask me if i locked myself in. I had a good laugh at it :). Well since i am in a new area I really don't have other stories but please write and email me :) and 5 more months!