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!

Back to Bastrop

So I been ET (Emergancy Transferred) Back to BASTROP!! Serving with Sister Baker :) Apparently our Sister, Sister Benjamin hurt her back and was sent home to go heal and take Pyshical Thearpy, So I am taking her Spot til transfer and I be leaving Bastrop, the weird part I was prompted a few days before President called me and told me i was leaving that i needed to leave Winnsboro. Oh how our Lord prepares his servants to be ready for the future. It was Sad to leave Winnsboro on such a short Notice and try to see as many people as i can but I coming back for the catfish Festival next Year :) yep. So I will be having a great time with Sister Baker again and Bastrop at the same time.
I sorta came in to a Missionaries Depression (before coming back to Bastrop) so I trying to help and bring it up and fight the Depression to not get to me. But I am glad to see everything Progressing good :) Everyone in Church remembers me and told me I changed a lot and you can feel it and see it but I feel like I am the same but somehow different.

I told her that it was really neat that she had a spiritual experience with her feeling about leaving and that the Lord had a reason for her to go. I think it was good for her to meet up with her MTC companion, Sister Baker.  I am sure it meant a lot to both of them to see the growth they had made from their MTC days.

Clean Apartment...continuing to search

July 28
So this week was really and truly the Best week ever happen!
We recently found a wonderful family that husband "claimed" to be a Mormon but he was never baptized but always with Mormon so he called himself one. lol. So we found them Knocking doors and we were on the bridge of dropping Le and L due to lack of keeping commitment and President ask us to drop L. We were happy to meet them and our church was featuring a Pioneer Day that Friday we met them so we invited so they can meet the members faster than waiting to church and possibly disappointment that they didn't come. So when Friday came around we were so happy when we saw their faces and their car seeing that they came to the church activity and everyone in the church loved them and H was talking to our Bishop Pres. Hathcock how he misses the church and never felt like he was home and wanted his family and himself to be baptized and always knew this was the true church. His wife felt the same and too agreed she never felt so much love then other churches gave to them and wants to be baptized. So we are now teaching them and the kids have a baptism date which was a total surprise cause there kids says they weren't gonna get baptized, well mainly the boys they have a little girl who 8 dying to be dumped in the water, So the more surprising part was that one of the boys the oldest actually took a baptism date :) but we are working with the other two so far but we are glad God helping us :)

Aug 4
So we have been teaching the T's and they came to church like they have promised and later in the day we were going to meet them at 5 with Derek Earl. I have been having problem paying attention cause the boys plays Video Games and I can't seem to stop myself from watching them. Well Apparently while I been glued to the TV but trying to escape it I heard S (the mother) Blew up and was cussing up a storm about being baptized and that we are not thinking about her and stuff and then switch about she will never change till the Earth pick up their crap and stuff and if the Book of Mormon have the answer then why isn't there an answer to save the world. Me and the Sister were at a lost what to do but thanks for Derek being there he was able to pick up some things :). But apparently S will not be baptized for a while till we help her. 

 They got another Clean Apartment Award!!  YAY Girls!

4 weeks of letters

I was on vacation for the month of July, so I got a little behind on Teighlor's notes, but hey, now there are 4 ;)

June 30
So this week I couldn't share as much but I will try sadly our numbers weren't this great as these past week and we don't know why but we were able to make it up with member present with Derek Earl (the Boy who was going to serve a mission in Argentina but came home due to sickness, sadly it doesn't seem like he going back :( but I pray he will). But other than that Derek been gladly coming out serving with us so we can have member present he a really good guy and really good at being a missionary too. Anyways we been taking him out with us and our Investigators and we were able to make up enough to cover for our small number of "Other Lessons".
I don't know if i mention this but i guessing it soon my time up to be here in Winnsboro President told me that in Interviews so i am sad to leave and no more free Farm Eggs that the members get from their chicken, or free just freshly grown veggies or more :( and the Members too i miss them all but who knows maybe i wound up serving for 8 months in Winnsboro? Na time to move on :)  Well My mind is going blank and i try to make this week a better and more memorable week :) Bya 

July 7
I was sitting in church and I gain a terrible habit to read old new era or church magazine in church though I listen here and there and I was reading a 2010 January issue on New era and as i was reading I came across a article that the pictures look so familiar to me. I was thinking "Wow that look like Ali Smith from Washington, and that's Nicole and... and... wait a minute...is..is that ME?!" I study the pictures harder than ever and saw everyone from Washington and started bawling missing everyone. How the Lee's (remember they are married) and how they are my Models, my friend and hope they were my friend and everything there. I showed my companions and they were flipping and we tried to stay quiet about it cause being in a room of only 15 members wasn't hard to tell who sleeping or not or focusing or not. I eventually read into it trying to hold back the tears and think of everything that has happen to me. I am Glad to have such wonderful people in my life to make me who I am now :) Thanks for everything 

July 15 
So this past 2 weeks been kinda crazy and most memorable thing alive. We may drop (or stop teaching) L. He been acting very weird and possibly hitting on Sister Dalebout, making her very uncomfortable and making us worry about leaving her alone. I don't know if I shared this but 3 weeks ago we taught the Law of Chastity to L so he understand and hopefully his attitude will change but something was very wrong with L, he was very rude and wasn't into the lesson that much and what was even worst we had a member with us and the member felt very mock by him. Before we left his mom grab Sister Totterer aside and whisper "please pray for him he been weird lately and he never like this."
So we got a call that L was in a Mental hospital and he called us here and there to keep us updated about him if he can make it to church and ask us to visit his family. (which we did on 4th of July and the food they give us was so good) But finally L is home and nothing change but we hope that the new Medicine he'll be taking will help him and we are giving him a last chance before we can't see him and President already concern and asking for us to not see him possibly for good. and that what going on with L so far. 
On the July 4th we worked as usual and as i said we went to L's family and enjoyed a good meal with them :) we did planned with Sister earl to help her shells peas as we eat Hamburger but that didn't happen at all. But we were told there was Firework at the nearby park so we planned to have dinner watching the Fireworks but nothing happened, turned out they were at a different place. 
We lately been teaching a wonderful man name Le and I must say he really outstanding man. Le has 4 kids and his wife, who he loves to death, in jail right now or in Rehab we got lost on that but that all we know. He doesn't do drugs so far and he is a very loving man. also the 6th child of 19 Brothers and 4 Sisters (Crazy huh and all the same parents.) He been really awesome on the gospel and we know it would help him alot and he practically lives it, one day a old friend of his came to pick up the kids and in the back we heard him telling her off and she left with the kids and he came back a bit frustrated and said how she wants a really good relationship with him but he has a wife and kids and can't mess up like other men do. 
We have been very bless to have Derek come out with us more often since he the only young male and it been really nice to have him come with us :). Derek has really open up to us and hearing his Short stories he had on his mission and it great to see how Derek is trusting us and love to tell us things :). Well My mind gone blank :) have a great day :)

I received this picture from a member of the Stake RS Presidency in LA.  I was so excited to see it.

July 21 So this week was really good :) and many things. I thought I was being transferred and I was saying my good-byes and everything but we wouldn't get the calls till Saturday (they changed it from Friday to Saturday which drag alot cause Saturday are perfect days to see everyone and then you leave, Sunday good for saying bye to the members and the Last actives members. Monday Cleaning day and Tuesday your off.) So I said my good-byes especially to J and she was really sad. Well turns out I wasn't leaving! So it was embarrassing to see J who thought I was leaving wasn't gone but we were happy that i get to stay longer and so was she but the more hard part was we couldn't see her as often as we did due to she not progressing and she doesn't want to be baptized yet. Sigh I didn't want to stop cause i know she has the Potential in her it just need some nourishment a bit. but I pray that she will get it.
We are also on the brink to drop L which is even sadder cause he not keeping his commitments and when we ask he be an honest man and tell us what he did instead and we be very sad and he missed the invitation to church alot and we don't know what to do. He too has Potential but he wouldn't do his part of the bargain. But as we know God always have plans for those who do good and that good was meeting M, she is a mother of 4 boys and hoping that her baby she currently pregnant with will be a girl. Well we walk to her and ask her about the gospel and everything and she said her son who is 9 years old found that book and took it home and trying to reading but couldn't understand it so he would ask her and she couldn't understand it either. So we pray that we can help this family and they can be baptized into the church.
Now I have some funny things to share about. So one night I was having a dream that I was hanging out with my companions Sister Totterer and Sister Dalebout, we were in the car and Sister Totterer was driving the car and they were just being plain mean to me and rude and more (not in real life) I was irritated and tried to ask to please stop or knock it off but i couldn't talk till i finally yelled "STOP IT!!!" It woke me up and I realized i was sleep talking and literally did yelled "Stop it!" I quickly pretend to sleep hoping no one woke up to that till I heard Sister Dalebout moved and realized I woke her up but sister Totterer was still and I remember she said she was a heavy sleeper so i couldn't tell if I woke her up. By morning I was eating breakfast and Sister Dalebout was eating with me and i look over and said "Did you hear me scream last night?" Sister Dalebout laughed and ask what happen and i explain my dream and she laughed and shared that she thought someone was "messing with me" that kind of deal so she didn't know what to do, and Sister Totterer had a dream I was talking but I was mumbling till I yelled that and she couldn't tell if that was real or a dream. Haha remember people don't sleep talk and say "Stop It". Well after that dream I had another one when i went back to sleep that same night that I was having a Mission Reunion and everyone decided to come to Florida and use the Disney rooms and hangout. Well we are in there and Elders were playing video games (Dragonball Z) and the Sisters were chatting away and I notice i had to go to church for an activity and i been asking for a ride but nobody will so I went out only to meet my neighbor who lives below in Winnsboro, the Bates. I nervously ask for a ride and they kindly agreed but once we got to the car worst driving ever! the Bates were driving to fast for me to give instruction to home and we were driving in the river and then a volcano lava it was like those 3D roller coaster games I was freaking out holding on to anything to stay alive and then I woke up. haha I couldn't help but laugh that night away. Well my mind is Blank and I have more to share next week :) Love y'all