Engagement News and Talk of Christmas Phone Calls!

Dear Family and Friends,

I am SOOOOOOOOOO happy for Cassie and I am so thankful that she has someone that she loves so much and that he makes her so happy. I am thankful that he is a member of the church and that he is strong. One of the zone leaders here Elder Dixon knows him well and he gave a really good report on him to me.  I am happy but upset.  The ONLY thing that upsets me at all is that I wont be there. But I am so proud of my little baby and that she is going to get married in the temple. That is the only important thing! What I require is that you make a cardboard cutout of me so I can kinda be there hahaha. I remember that the klumkers did that and I thought it was funny. In a few months I will feel better...I will be praying more than ever. Cassie I am so proud and I love you I wish that I could be there to do your hair and makeup perfect, see you so happy and see you go through the temple for the first time as well as get sealed for time and all eternity. I know that the Lord will be with you and I know that you are going to be the most gorgeous bride I have ever seen. Cas can you include me in some things so I can not feel so left out. Like in wedding planning and stuff if you can? I love you and I am so proud. All I require of you is that you name one of your children cornhole and to not get pregnant til I get home thanks. hahaha. In you pictures you look gorgeous because I can tell that you are soo happy! THank you John for making my sister happy. ANd making her happy will never stop, you hear me? hahaha. I require everything that my dad requires of you. And I know that over time I will get to know you better! Thank you for taking my sister to the temple.

SO I HAVE GOOD NEWS! 3 PIECES OF GOOD NEWS! THe most important is that CAREY GOT BAPTIZED AND I GOT TO TALK TO HIM ON THE PHONE RIGHT BEFORE HE GOT BAPTIZED! HE IS AMAZING AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH! We have been keeping in contact every week through letters. The amazing thing is that I can request to be put back in green valley or a area closer to the temple so that I can see him go through the temple in december of next year. How amazing is that. I cannot wait until you meet him. I gave him your number and email but I have no idea if he has gotten a hold of you. THe second piece of news is that I WILL BE SKYPING YOU ON CHRISTMAS DAY! I have no idea when but I will have more information next week! BUt I will be so excited to see you and talk to you. We as a mission are now allowed to skype on our calls home and the zone leaders are going to give us more information tomorrow. the 3rd is that Christian got baptized this last saturday too. I had baptisms 4 and 5 last saturday. I am so thankful that I was able to witness those miracles.

Yesterday went good. I sang in all 3 wards that we cover here. I sang Our saviors love in the Carlin ward, I know that my redeemer lives in the Elko 3rd ward and Venid adoreymos in the Spansih branch. The talk that I had in the spansih branch was good. I wrote it word for word in english and then sister espinal so graciously took all day to translate it to spanish. She translated for me on the pulpit. SO here is a little about our wards. Carlin is a town about 30 min west of elko. It is PO FREAKING DUNK! hahah. The people that were giving talks this week talked all about their 243's they got for christmas and talking so passionatley about their 4 wheelers and hunting stories hahaha. Love it. Elko is our main ward and it is a big english ward. They members there are amazing. We just went to a white elephant gift exchange and it was so fun!  The last branch we have is the spanish branch and branch pres nielsen is amazing! We go over to their house all the time and I love their kids. They attack me every time I come to the door hahaha. Pres nielsen and i were talking all about hunting stories and by the way he is already planning a hunting trip with his family and ours haha. Dad he reminds me of you so much! He said that he might give you a  call soon. I gave him your number.

Tell me how you think christmas day will go so I can try to plan for the whole skyping thing. I dont know how long we have to skype but I would be ready with things you want to ask me or talk about because I dont think I will have that long.

Investigators here are doing really well. Casey was going to get baptized this week but his parents keep convientley grounding him just for the time that we have lessons planned. And they take his phone away so he cant let us know that he cant come. SO we are praying hard for him because he is already talking about how much it costs to go on a mission and stuff hahaha. He is going to be an AP his first transfer in the mission hahaha. I can just feel it! Gary Fine is alright. His girlfriend left him and so he is in a very humble state right now. But his friend called us today and said that he let him know that he wants to have lessons with us. SO that is amazing. Maybe these two guys are the reason that I am here! WHo knows. Elko has been really tough but now that it is the LAST WEEK of the transfer I kinda want to stay. I really like it here. Things with sister Espinal are better because I havent been letting her walk all over me. Obviously I have been kind about it. But there is no need for all the horrible things she would do and say. I wont take that. We have been having a lot more fun and good times. Who knows what is going to happen with this transfer. I HAVE NO IDEA! Sister Espinal thinks that I am leaving. ANd I seriously could see her leaving, us staying together, us both getting transferred out and me leaving. I have no idea. It is cold here but people here say that it has been a really really mild winter. It is usually around 30 during the day and below freezing at night. But we have this super nice cootage that keeps us more than warm.

I have no idea what I want for christmas. I cant think of anything. I am getting so sick of my clothes its not even funny. YEs I have inherited lots of things from the other sisters but im so sick of it hahaha.

Sounds awesome about the creche in our home! Those were pretty cool pictures huh! We should have that going on in olympia!!!!!!!!!!! That would be amazing!

Dad I am not as good at goals as you are. I dont even know sometimes what to make goals about. I have little ones but I want to be better of that on my mission. Any advice? Hahaha dad you always make me laugh. I can just picture you peeling caden out of his bed. Im suprized his skin doesnt get grafted to the bed over night like that 800 pound lady hahahaha.

Well I love you and miss you all! SO I will be talking to you not this sunday but the next! Crazy huh? we well figure it out next pday. Give me as much info as you can about christmas day for you so I can plan the call accordingly.

Love you,

Sister Fine

Transfer Trash?

Hey how are you?!?!?! Things have been going well here in Elko. The creche festival was amazing! The oly stake should do it it is incredible! I will put some pictures on here from it. The performances were good I think and wow I just found out that I am singing in all of our wards next week (except for 1.......we have 3 wards and 1 branch) and I am also giving a talk in spanish on sunday in the spanish branch. Oh Heavenly Father please help me!!!!!!! AHHHHHH! I will prolly write it down and have sister espinal help me translate the talk and then I will most likely be reading it off the paper. I am understanding all the things that the people say here in spanish but I cannot really form sentences...its pretty frusterating but its okay. This week we had interviews with the president and his wife. President felt bad that he didnt know that this was a spanish area...he suggested to sister espinal that he was sorry that they played a trick on me this transfer. But I dont think it was a mistake. I have grown so much here. It has been my HARDEST time......but that is what I was supposed to go through to get closer to the savior. I learned a valuable lesson this week. As we become more and more corverted to Christ we will see that as we are repenting every day, the things that we are repenting for get less and less bad and wrong. I thought that was really cool. This week was a rough one.....but wow I feel like I have learned so much. Had a big anxiety attack this week and I couldn't do anything for a few hours at night but I got myself together and went to work. Sister Espinal saw how miserable I was and she held my hand and cried with me....it was a great blessing. We have been laughing more and more and we have been seeing more miracles. This week there have been some obstacles that tested our obedience. This guy asked us for a ride and he was an investigator. When he was asking he went on and on about how crippled he is etc etc...but I remember reading in the white handbook that it says DO NOT give rides to anyone excpet for members that are coming with you to lessons. So I said no and I have already seen the blessings from the obedience.

I was praying and fasting hard about a few things yesterday. #1 that we would get a hold of casey because we hadnt heard from him in almost 2 weeks and #2 I was praying for new opportunities and new people. First thing, casey was one of the 1st people to walk into church. Wow thank you God! :] Then yesterday we had a new person just show up to chruch. Also We had 20 min til our next appointment and didn't know what to do...so all of a sudden I just thought hey lets go to the creche real quick...normally sis espinal would say to do something else but she was like okay! I was kinda surprised. Then as we were walking into the creche there was this couple walking to their car and they passed us. Then when we were almost into the church they yelled...."hey are you the sisters? Are you teaching gary fine?" and we said yes! They were members and they said that they were really close with gary. All these things keep happening with gary and I KNOW that they are not a coincidence. It is because God is like "sister Fine Gary and brandy need to get baptized right now...get on that." hahahah I love God. He is so funny sometimes. :] Amazing things. I was thinking as that was going on that I want to stay in Elko so that I can see the miracles happen here. :] we will see......sister espinal thinks that I will be transfer trash this next transfer. (transfer trash means that after one transfer you get moved to another area.)

2 pieces of news from green valley! Gerry got baptized on sat and so I am at 3 people taught and baptized. Numbers dont matter but I am so proud of gerry. Sister Garner told me that he was so cute. He publicly said that he wished sister matthew and I were there because we were his missionaries. AWHHHH GER BEAR..... :] 

Oh another miracle here in elko....there is this lady that bishop referred us to and her name is kirstie. We met with her once to get acquainted and then we met with her a 2nd time. The second time she was talking all about how she is worried about having her insision from her surgery immersed in water when she is baptized. And wew were like uhhhhhhhh...................its okay we will figure that out.....hahaha. Usually people have doctrinal concerns.........but we will take it! hahahaha. She is amazing. Well I love you alot and I miss you! I cant really think of anything else! I am excited to hear more about the comp! I am also excited to hear that shar wrote me.........my long lost sissy pants. Mom and Dad I am so thankful for you and everything that you do for me. You are incredible parents and I thank the Lord my God for you every day. It is weird to think that I will be speaking to you in like 3 weeks. WOW time flies doesn't it? I cant believe it is already pday. Know that I am always doing my best and I am focusing my brain so hard tha tit is about to explode! haha. MWAH MWAH MWAH! Mom I have no christmas ideas. I have no idea. Sister Espinal's mom sent her her christmas presents already and it was really cute. I dont need too much candy mom thats my only request....I wont eat it im prolly getting fat. Maybe just a couple of my favorites or something. And remember I cant chew gum....especially in the cold because all of my past injuries hurt so bad in the cold. Oh by the way it was -1 this morning before we went to soccer. Remember that I have the possiblitly of being transferred so after this week dont send anything to the elko address until you know that I am staying kay? :] Mom you were right.....nick sent me these pink vogue glasses. What a crazy! hahaha I was very thankful he always goes above and beyond....I love you all and I hope that you have a great week. Oh yea and last week we played football and you would be so proud of me, I caught a long pass and ran it in for a touch down!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO :] Love you and I cant think of anything else to say. XOXOXOXO!

Mwah,

Sister Fine

Silly girl :)

"El Diablo was pronounced DEAD!"

Hey Everyone!

Things are going lots better here in Elko!

We set a kid for baptism for dec 17! He is the kid named casey that the elders found. He is amazing and so humble. He doesn't care what anyone else says in his family he knows that the BOM is true. Since he is 18 he can legally take the lessons and get baptized without his parents approval. THey are not allowing us to meet in their home so we are meeting at the ward mission leaders home. He is amazing!

Some sad sad news...........neither balil or ruby got baptized.........they backed out and now they aren't going to at all. I was really sad but I know that they will come around as they feel that emptiness inside them. I have no doubt that they will get baptized someday. Gerry is still on for baptism this sat and I am so excited for him even though I will not be there. Sister Garner will be sending me pictures and a program so that I can have that. I am excited.

Another cool thing is we met this girl named Zharlay right when we were going to contact a referral we received. She was so sweet and so open to the message. She has been through a lot of hardship in her lack of an upbringing but she has felt the spirit when she has been with us. She prayed for the first time with us and I could see the tears well up in her eyes. Amazing. She said that if she finds out for herself that it is true then she will be baptized.

Another miracle is I told you that I met Gary Fine and his girlfriend brandy. One night a few days ago I had a feeling that we should go there. It was so dark and we couldn't find where they lived so we decided to go back to the truck  and call them. As soon as we called he said "wow sister Fine you must be an angel sent from God..." I was super confused as to why he said that so he found us and he invited us in. Apparently he and brandy were having a really rough day. They had just been thinking about us when we called. Crazy....... Then they invited us in and we sat down on the couch. As they were talking to us, sister Espinal and I noticed that there was a piece of paper on the coffee table in front of us and it said in someone's handwriting..."I am so thankful for a modern day prophet on the earth in these latter days. I am also thankful for the ultimate sacrifice of the atonement that christ made for all of us. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen." We were a little snoppy by looking over at that but then sister espinal asked who wrote it. Brandy said that she did. She said that those words just came to her as she was writing last year. It was out on the table because she was just moving in and there was alot of stuff everywhere but that happened to be right there in front of us when we sat down. Brandy said that she has NEVER been in a LDS church before. How crazy is that? She said that she talked to her LDS friend once and that he told her about a modern day prophet and she believed him. After she told us this we asked her and Gary if they would like to learn more. We pointed out that everything that had happened with us meeting each other and coming at that specific time with the piece of paper sitting in front of us was not a coincidence. Since I have been on my mission I DO NOT believe in coincidences. They don’t happen. God makes everything happen for a reason. As soon as we asked them if they wanted to learn more the spirit flooded into the room. I know that we were there for them and that they would get baptized someday. Wow what an amazing experience.

Thanksgiving was good. We got to play football in the morning with a bunch of members and it was so fun! Let me tell you tho.....wow missionary work on holidays is hard. No one is out! But we did talk to everyone on the street and we got a few new investigators. SO that was good. I am continuing to play soccer in the mornings and yes it IS with a real ball hannah....hahaha. I did really well the other morning and made all the goals! :] This morning however.....hahaha pretty embarassing.

Yes dad that was an amazing deer! NICE WORK! I loved the story and how you described it! OUr brach pres for the spanish branch wants to hook up with you sometime and go hunting! His name is pres Nielson and he is amazing. SO FUNNY! You would like him. I told him last night when he came out with us that after my mission I will come back to visit this area and we will all go hunting together! He has a huge elk in his family room and it made me think of our explosion room of death. hahaha.

Christmas plans.........no idea. I am pretty sure that we cannot skype so just plan on talking to me for about 40 min. I would encourage you to write down things that you want to talk about so you dont forget when we get on the phone hahaha. I will do the same. I have no idea when we call home (what time in the day I mean) so when I hear more about that I will let you know. When I talk to you that will mean that I have been out for 6 months. TIME GOES BY TOO FAST!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Im glad that you had a great time on thanksgiving. It felt just like another dinner with a member here. But they made us feel right at home it was very sweet. But wow this church is SOOOOOOO TRUE and there are no buts about it!

HAHAHAHA ELF! wow I love that movie. Amazing. I hope that you guys had a great time. I have no christmas ideas......I would like some music to play for christmas. BUt not for christmas because I want to listen to gospel christmas music before it comes. And the music guideline for this mission is anything that brings the spirit. So you can be the judge. :] Um I do want the cd "work" and nashville tribute to missionaries. We listened to it in green valley all the time and I love it with a passion. But that is all that I can think of. you know me and I trust you. Anything you send me will be amazing so dont stress too much over it. :] Yes sister garner did send the package to me that I was supposed to get. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH APPLE CUP! DANGIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Oh just a little about elko. Everyone and their goldfish works at the gold mines here. So trying to get an appointment with people is crazy! hahaha. I want to go for a tour of the mines one of these days. :] I think that will be coool.Oh God gave us a thanksgiving present and that was the answer to my prayers. EL DIABLO WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD THANKSGIVING DAY. It was bad tho because in the middle of the night I heard a screaming noise coming from a small rodent underneath my desk. Yea gross. It fell into the tray of glue trap and it was stuck. I went back to sleep because I didn’t want to deal with it right then........then we went to morning sport and then came back and he was still alive. I unfortunately had to take care of it. Let’s just say he is now frozen in the garbage outside of our little cottage. None el diablos hosts haven’t died yet but hopefully soon.

I was asked to sing for a big festival called the christmas creche this saturday. I asked brandy (gary fine's brandy) to play the guitar for me. It shall be fun! I am singing O Holy night in spanish. :] going to be fun! Oh I am sending you all of my photo cds so that you can have all my pictures at home if anything happens to my camera or something. So make sure to keep them safe in my box or something after you do whatever you want with them. I want them to be there when I get home so that they will be safe. THanks momma and daddy for everything you do for me! XOXOXOXO give my little babies a kiss kiss for me. Love you and miss you all!

Sister Fine

A Poop Magnet?

Things are going okay. ELko is cold and the work goes a little slower here but I love it. Elko looks like home. IT is very pretty and the sunsets and sunrises are GORGEOUS! I feel the extra help from being a servant of the Lord. I love the mission and I know that I will never want the mission to end.

Wanted to tell you a cool story. So this week we were playing morning sports and the zone leaders came to us and told us about this amazing referral they had for us. THey ran into this 18 yr old kid and he was like oh ya my girlfriend gave me a book of mormon and I wanted to start meeting with the missionaries but she told me that I had to read the whole book first. And the elders were like NONONO you dont have to do that but that is so awesome! And Casey said...ya I have been meaning to get baptized. And the elders were freaking out hahaha but he lives in our area so they handed him  over to us. When we contacted him the spirit was SOOOOOOOOOO strong on his front porch. He told us about his experience with feeling the spirit so strong as he read the Book of Mormon. I wanted to cry on the doorstep. The spirit was so strong. I know that he will get baptized really soon and that he will go on a mission in a years time. He went to church on his own for 3 months and has been going to mutual every week. He went under the radar but I am so glad that the elders found him. He is going to be a huge influence on others around him I can just feel it.

Dad I am so proud of you and the beautiful deer! I am focusing hahaha. I am so glad that you got to do that! You deserve it! Love you daddy and I miss you alot!

Momma! I am so glad that you loved your present! Sorry the tape wasnt very long but I hope that you enjoyed it. I love you and I hope that you had a great birthday.

According to president, learning spanish is not high on his priority list for me. He said that I just need to learn how to pray which I am already doing every prayer and how to read the scriptures aloud and bear my testimony. I bore my testimony and prayed in spanish at the 7th spansih branch yesterday. I was so nervous. But it ended up being okay. I know that I am here for a reason and  maybe casey is the guy! hahaha. Sister Espinal predicts that I will only be here for one transfer and then go back to vally but who knows. Only God hahaha.

Yes thank you I got a few things and I tried to get them as cheap as possible. I went to walmart for clothes and jc pennys for boots. I got a better coat at walmart which has saved me. Transfering areas is EXPENSIVE! AHHHHHH but know that I am doing my best. I hope that I am making you proud and that you always feel that your money is being well spent with me. But one of these days I will be paying you back for the mission since I have had no means since I left school. One day that will come. I have full intentions on starting to do that when I get home.

Wow 5 months tomorrow! How crazy is that? Time goes by so fast! I am trying to be ther best missionary that I can so that I can be more effective sooner. There are so many amazing people here and I know that the Lord is preparing more. I just recieved word that Balil and Ruby are not getting baptized this week anymore. My heart sank and it hurts so bad because you desire their salvation. It makes you think as a missionary....what did I do wrong? Did I not teach something well enough? etc etc....But I read in preach my gospel what they define as a successful missionary and  that there are many who do feel the spirit and know that it is true but they use their agency and choose not to accept it for themselves. I know that they will come around some day. It will be alright. I have been able to talk to Sister Garner a few times on the phone and wow I miss her so much.

It snowed this week and I sent a few pics to you but I dont know if I like them haha. But you can choose one for the card. Love you alot and I miss all of you! Happy thanksgiving! I hope that you guys have a good time together as a family! I will be doing service and going to a member's house for dinner. Going to be good haha. Sister Espinal says that the holidays are so hard for missionary work because everyone wants to be with their families and not meet with the missionaries but I hope that things wont slow down too much! Yes I did get my package! THANK YOU THAT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SWEET! Wow time goes by so fast! I never want this to end. I know that Jesus is the Christ and that he loves us all. As we keep the commandments and live by the laws and bounds he has set then we will become more like him and he will be a greater part of us that can overcome sin.

We had an awesome lesson with this guy named steve. He is a really heavy smoker and he did something really awesome with us this week. We asked him if he would give us his cigarettes and he said that he would. We were so excited for his great faith to be able to do that. I have a great hatred for cigarettes!!! They keep people from being able to use their own agency so that they can follow God. We had a great time ripping all of the cigarettes to SHREDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have another funny story to tell you! We went to this lady's house and she was a spanish lady and we (sis espinal haha) was teaching her the plan of salvation using the little visual aid map of the plan. When we do that we usually sit on the floor. While we were sitting on the floor I could smell this awful poop smell and it was horrendous. I looked around to see where the smell might be coming from and lo and behold it was coming from my shoes.........yea........my shoes...............and mind you I was kneeling down and SITTING on my feet. YEs SITTING on my feet. I was mortified but I couldn't just explode in the middle of the lesson and when I found this out the lesson has just begun. An hour of poop all over me and I was ready to be out of there. I had realized that little pieces had come off onto her carpet and I cleaned it up but wow. That was an adventure........then last night we were going to an appointment with a new investigator. It was dark and we knocked on the door and I felt myself step in something. Yes it was poop..............AGAIN! We told the new investigators the story and he called me a poop magnet..........yes............a POOP magnet. hahahaha well how embarrassing. Mom dont worry I disinfected EVERYTHING! hahaha. We are buying a mouse trap especially for el diablo today. He will only be here for one more night I can assure you. I think that we might have el diable a, b, c, d, e,f,..............and so on but I guess that we will find out!

Oh by the way sister Garner thinks that she accidently sent a package home that was supposed to go to me. She was sending you my jeans so that I didnt have to haul them around and there was another package that was supposed to come to me that had my picture of chrust and stuff in it. She told me to mention that in my email.

I love you all and the work is going along! Miss you all.

Thank you  britton and caden for the emails you are so sweet! I love to hear how you all are doing. MWAH MWAH!

Sister Fine

"I love the mission and I know that I will never want the mission to end. "

"Have joy in the journey!"

I love all of you! So I will be writting email a little earlier on pday in this area just to let you know. Here are a couple of things right off the bat.

Well spanish, hmmmmmm......lets say that I am on my knees all the time. But I talked to president because when I got the call from the Ap's about my new assignment NOBODY said anything to me about spanish so I had no idea. ANd I still didn'y have anyone talk to me until I talked to president when he was up here. They must have made a mix up because they said that I am here for english but that I need to work on my spanish so that I can talk a little bit to people. Spanish is so hard. BUt I have a testimony about the gift of tongues because I started remembering all the spanish I learned from high school and it was crazy. BUt I do not know enough to talk to people hahaha. Most of our work is in spanish and so I find myself sitting there while sister Espinal teaches them. But I did share my testimony in spanish last night and also I have been praying in spanish. This is going to be the time that I am on my knees the most that is all I am going to say about that hahaha. Sister Espinal is really hard core. I think that President Neider is giving me the hardest companions to teach me something hahaha. Times get hard but I think this time I am supposed to learn that I shouldn't be as hard on myself as I am constantly. This week so far has shown me that I am always doing my best and no matter what anyone else says to me I know that I am doing my absolute best and have great desires in my heart. I also learned to not be critical of others because it never makes anyone feel good (because of how I feel right now). All I know is that I am supposed to be here and I know that I am here for a reason. I love this area because it reminds me of home and the amazing scenery. I love this area even though it is really cold hahaha. I miss vegas in that respect. I also miss all the people I taught in Green Valley and how many people are out that we can talk to. There aren't as many people on the streets but every time we see someone we stop the truck, jump out and run after them hahaha. You should see the look on their faces when they realize we are coming to talk to them hahaha. We are God's rescue team! WE HAVE TO GIVE EVERYONE THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THE GOSPEL!!!!

I love the mission and I have been learning SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much these past few days. I learned that if you want to know Christ you MUST live the eternal law. God is the law and if you live the law he will in all of you and all that you do. As a missionary living the law is the most important thing so that you can be obedient. Obedience=BAPTISMS! I have a firm testimony on that. SOrry my emails are always random. These elders around me are crazy loud and I cant focus hahaha. uhhhhh.............anyways! You Didn't tell me about how well the girls did! I wish I could have seen them in their uniforms and I wish I could have watched them dance. I miss them and I miss dance so much! THank you so much for the money so that I can go get clothes. I NEED THEM BAD! hahaha. I will go get some things today. In my mission there are like 40 spanish missionaries and and the rest are english. There are 197 missionaries in our mission total. There are 10 missionaries in elko, springcreek and elly. It is crazy because we dont see alot of missionaries ever.

MOMMA HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I love you and you better go get yourself something big! I am sending you something today, but know that I have very limited resources as you know. BUt I have put a lot of thought into your present. Hopefully you like it. I love you and I want you to know that you are the most amazing mother in the entire world. You are so amazing and if there is one thing that I want you to know is your worth. Your worth is so far above that of rubies. I know that that is a scripture but I have no idea where it is right now hahaha. There are no words to describe how amazing you are. You work so hard, you are the sweetest human in the world and you are so patient and kind. I think that God will exalt you just for how you raised us kids. I cannot describe how grateful I am to you for doing that no matter how long and hard things got. I look at the world and I am amazed that I have been able to weather the storm and be protected because of how you and dad raised us. I am so thankful for the home that you provided and fostered as a spiritual place so that my testimony could grow. Without that, I would not be as strong of a missionary. I attribute all of my success to God and to you as my parents for loving me and allowing me to grow in my testimony on my own. That has made me so strong! I LOVE YOU and I am so thankful that all of the ordinances have been done so that IF we keep the commandments and live the higher law, we WILL be together as an eternal family. I can just picture us walking into meet eachother on the other side and how joyous that will be someday. I know that my savior lives and I am so thankful that he allowed me as a missionary to be his hands in his work so that I could grow. I love being a missionary and I am always doing my best. I know that the Lord will always take care of me and that there is eternal joy to look forward to. HAVE JOY IN THE JOURNEY! I have learned that alot on my mission so far. Wow Next week I will be 5 months old. HOW CRAZY IS THAT?!?!?! That means I only have 13 months left which means I better get my buns in gear. Wow there is always so much to say. I love you so much and I miss you all the time. Don't worry I never get distracted by it! :] Im a good girl about these things.

I am so glad that cas is okay and that you guys have kept me updated. Sister Espinal is the only spanish speaking sister in this area...and me too kinda?!? hahaha yes it is really unusual that I was sent here into a mostly spanish area but I know that if God is going to make that much of a move for me that means that I have a great need to be here. Yes I am driving a truck and it is so fun hahaha. LOVE IT! I have no idea what I want for christmas but it will be interesting not having christmas at home (and thanksgiving) so I guess just anything that would make me feel more comfy being away from home for the holidays. It looks like I will be missing the holiday seasons twice. I come home a year from Jan 1st. Crazy huh! I cant beleive that christmas is coming. From my understanding we only have 30-40 min to talk to our families and I need to be obedient so just a heads up there. So just help me be obedient by helping me only talk for that long. It will be crazy to hear your voices. Mom you are such a dance mommy I am so glad that you have ben able to see all of us go through dance. Amazing stuff. Well I dont know what else to say because I wrote you a BOOK! hahaha But I love you and I hope tha tyou all have a great week! Muah!

XOXO Sister Fine Here is a pic of me right now emailing. Love you!

Our beautiful missionary e-mailing us TODAY!

"I love my mission and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world."

Hi Everyone!

I am alive I promise. :] I have been hoping that you are not too worried about me since I wans't able to write you on monday. Yes I am in Elko and I am Spansih speaking. My new companion is sister espinal and she has been out on the mission for as long as sister Garner. I miss sister Garner so much! You can't help but love your companions to death because you go through so much together! I got to talk to her on tuesday night and that was good. 5 of our baptisms are coming up in green valley and unfortunatley I will not be able to see them because I am so far away but I am so happy that they are getting baptized. Wow spanish, hahaha I don't even know what to think about that yet. But I know that the gift of tounges will be given to me as I work really hard. I have been reading el libro de mormon for about 30 min a day and I really have no other reasources than that. Most of our work is in spansih so that past few days in elko I have said hola and mucho gusto (nice to meet you) and como se llama and tenga una buena dia! But Sister Espinal has taught me how to pray in spanish and every time we pray together I pray in spanish. Sister Espinal is talking to me only in spanish and I have a really hard time understanding but I know that I will be given the guidance and ability through the love of the Lord as I do my best! That is what it says in the P. Blessing. Elko is cold hahahaha. Every night it gets down to the single digits and soon it will be 30 below....that is what I have been told. It is going to snow here pretty soon! Crazy crazy. We have one person set for baptism here in Elko. We are the only sisters here and the nearest sister is 8 hours away! Crazy huh! Now I am an out of valley missionary. I have a feeling I will be the strongest missionary in the world when I come home. But I know that the Lord doesn't give us any assignments or commandments that we cannot reach and achieve. I know that I can do this with the Lord's help. ALthough I want to speak fluent spanish RIGHT NOW and I expect that of myself, it will not happen until I have shown the lord that I trust in him and have faith that he can teach me spanish. I love my mission and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I wanted to apologize for ever saying anything to all of you that might have had a negative tone up to this point in my mission. Eric, nick's brother wrote me this last week and he said something that I really needed to hear. He said that if I rely too much on people at home, I am cheating myself of growing on my mission and growing closer to the Lord so I am striving to lean on the Lord and no one else so that I will grow a closer relationship than ever before. I don't think that there is any time that I will be able to get closer to him to benefit the rest of my life. I love you family and I miss you tons. 

I hope that everything is going well and that tas tas face is okay. I know that the Lord was protecting her. There are a few missionaries in the Elko zone that know cassie. Elder Dixon (one of my zone leaders) and Elder Chowan. It was crazy to find that out. THey say that I look a lot like cas and they talked to me about John Fryhoff. Elder Dixon said that he was one of the strongest members in his ward and that I shouldn't worry hahaha. But I like to be very protective anyway hahaha. Hannah and Shar....I am playing soccer every morning and you would be so proud of me! I have made some goals! Even when we play with the Elders! I am still really horrible but hahahaha I am doing better than I was hahaha. ELko feels like home, its cold....no palm trees, but it is more PO DUNK than tumwater hahaha. Everyone wears cowboyhats and boots and I want some immediatley! hahaha this next monday I will get some! hahaha if it is cheap! I am the driver again and we are driving a truck. His name is big boy hahaha. It is a chevy colorado and it is new. How amazing is that! We live in a little cottage right by a members home and it reminds me so much of the cabin. We have a little friend that lives in there and eats everything. He is a mouse but we haven't named him yet. hahaha. Some of my green valley investigators have written me and I actually gave carey your address and number so that he could call you and say hi one of these days. Carey seriously was the hardest person to leave. It was so sweet cuz he bought me all this stuff because he knew that I didn't have ANY warm clothes. How sweet is that?!?! We are starting to write back and forth! I cant wait for you to meet him. HE was the reason I was in green valley. His story is a miracle and I am not able to see him get baptized. But I know that there is a reason for mi padre celestial to drag me all the way up to elko 8 hours away. haha I will be looking for that reason every day. Dad someday we are going to go hunting here in elko. It is the best! One of the elders thought it was funny the other day and put a deer leg on our windshield. People hunt here like crazy! Wow there are so many things that I want to say! But sorry I couldn't email this last pday I was travelling all day and we went right to work. I love you and I miss you so much! I will be able to write again on monday and I will write you a letter home too. Take care of yourselves. Love you mommy! Love you Daddy! Love you tas tas! Love you baby nah nah! Love you Shashabonah! Love you Brittania! Love you baby cade cade! HANNAH AND SHARLEE I AM SO SAD THAT I HAVE TO MISS YOUR COMP! KICK SOME TRASH AND I AM SO PROUD OF YOU! Oh man I cant bear to miss that but you better show me hours and hours of videos Jan 2013! Happy 11/11/11! At 11:11 tonight I will be thinking of you! If you havent given the sister a referral of someone to teach this week call them up and give them someone that needs to be intoduces to the gospel. Man sorry this email is so random.

LOVE YOU SO MUCH! Excited to see email on monday! :] MWAH MWAH MWAH! The pictures I have with people are my investigators that are going to get baptized soon!

Hermana Fine

Sister Fine and her new Spanish-speaking companion Sister Espinal!

There are aliens in the scriptures?

Hello! Halloween is CRAZY out here. Not gonna lie. Hence the crazy pics. Plus we had a booth for trunk or treat at the quail ridge ward.

How are you? I am doing great! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MY PACKAGE! Thank you so much for going to all of that trouble to do that for me I love you so much! AND I miss you mucho! I am feeling a transfer coming on next week but I wont know until the weekendish. :] Here are the answers to your questions...

Shar was wearing my high school link crew shirt at the cabin...the dress that I gave her that shar wore at the baptism is hers no worries because I gave it to her! hahahaha.

No I do not have sunglasses anymore! :( it has been SOOOOOOOOO hard not having them for the past few weeks. I honestly just dont have money to get new ones. But I need some that I will wear. THanks for writing the questions at the top because wow my missionary brain is just all over the place at times.

I LOVE YOUR HAIR! It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute! I love you mommy you are the BEST mommy in the world.

Today is kinda a special p-day. We are metting together as an entire mission to watch 17 miracles and we are freaking out that we are watching a movie besides finding faith in christ and the restoration movie. hahaha. It came from salt lake that we are not allowed to go out proselyting tonight because of all the halloween crazies out there.

My tummy is feeling so much better. But I still feel yucky at times. I will take care of myself. Tell Nick that I am sorry for worrying him. I didn't mean to make him feel that way. But as much as is in my control I am taking care of what I eat. I weighed myself this morning and I am at my begining mission weight...119. But I havent been trying to do anything to get back down. I think that I am just continously losing muscle, also muscle is prolly being replaced with fat because of all the billions of desserts we get every day. I kid you not, we just threw away a HUGE box, (I could easily sit all the way in the box) and it was FILLED with desserts from members. I refuse to eat them or I would be confused with an orca whale. SO we threw the huge box away this morning. CRAZY CRAZY! and it is not even christmas or thanksgiving yet! Wow! Also we have been getting really close with one of our investigators Carey and when we taught him the ten commandments we threw in another one that said thou shalt always feed your missionaries cupcakes and candy. We were kinda joking but since then we have seen that Carey has been pretty serious hahaha. He knows that we are always starving on sundays so he gives us food to tide us over, even though he doesn't have alot. We were joking around with him but he always is so selfless and thoughtful. Seeing his testimony grow has made all the hard times on the mission so worth it. Last night he texted us and said that he will never forget his missionaries and that he loves us so much. He is now starting to share the gospel with his family and roomates. We are so HAPPY!

No, all of our baptisms fell through and people have been dropping us right and left. Sister Garner said that that is how the mission is. As you can prolly guess I was blaming myself for all of the people dropping us but I know that is not true. Satan just wants me to think that way. BUt I know that roses and thorns grow together like a rainbow follows bad weather. I KNOW that there is something coming and I dont know what it is yet but it is coming.

I love you all so much and thank you for being so amazing in your support to me. I got emails from chris Ivie, Missy, nick, and fam, and also I got letters from the shirley family, elder burbidge, kylie hicks (one of my first efy girls), Cassie layton, Brennon, I got a package and letter from leslie burnette, halloween presents from the Sister Garner Family, Nick and OMGOSH an amazing package from you guys! I feel so loved thank you for all that you do for me!

I have to tell you a quick story. SO there was this kid in one of our EFY groups that gaining a testimony at EFY and he struggled at times but Coco Chris and I knew that he is an amazing kid. I just got word that this SAME kid that we tried to help is called to my same mission! He is going to be here serving with me in the Nevada Las Vegas Mission! How amazing is that?!?!?!?!

Today I am getting a massage from a member, gosh I need it! All this stress is MESSING up my back!

Here are a few things I wanted to mention. Gladyis Knight lives here.......The members talk about seeing her all the time. Sister Garner says that my weaknesses are stinky feet and always somehow ending up stealing her pens hahaha. OOPS! I dont have a coat.......I need one, it is freezing here now. (50 degrees) I NEVER thought I would feel cold in 50 degrees. Can you ask corinne mack about Megan's baby? I missed the birth! I want to know how she is. THere are olive trees everywhere in las vegas. So when I read about the olive tree in the scriptures I think Im just so cool hahaha. HOW ARE THE CRIMSON GIRLS?!?!?! I have not heard anything cfrom them except for one letter from lex and linds while I was in the MTC. I miss them and I miss COUG COUNTRY. Hahahaha also this scripture is something I want caden to look up with you...... Alma 31:21. I was dying laughing. I love you all and missionary work is going. I love the work and I cant beleive I have already been out for 4 months. INSANE. Oh just to let you know, I know this is really far in advance but I think that I am only allowed to talk on the phone for 40 min at christmas time.....Not sure. I asked president if we could skype but I haven't had word yet. I think that the rules might change but I am not sure.

I met with president this week for a personal interview. It was really good and encouraging. He told my in confidence that I am a standard bearer in our mission and he is thankful for me and my example. He said that he wishes that all his missionaries we like me. I couldn't believe it! I always just want to be like the missionary daddy was. I hope that I make you proud mom and dad. I am trying really hard! I am learning the scriptures better and the context of the BOM and Bible together is making so much more sense! I LOVE the scriptures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love you all! Have Britton look up Hebrews 11:34. There are aliens in the scriptures....BTDUB

Sister Fine

"I'm so grateful that you taught me to work."

Hi my lovely humans. I love you all so much and I am SOOOOOO thankful for you and your support to me and my mission. I turned 4 months old this week how insane is that?!?! It felt like a day has gone by! We are seeing so much success in our investigators in the last week! We are so excited. We have an investigator named Blue and she was in the hospital this week but now she is out! we went there as soon as she got in the emergency room. We had our Ward mission Leader come with his son and give her a blessing. We visited her a few times and she prayed for the FIRST TIME! We were SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED! She kept crying because she is upset with God because she feels like she has been punished for nothing by having all these medical problems but now she wants to get baptized! She goes to dialysis 3 times a week and because of the cathiter she cant be immersed in water, but now her doctor is totally on board in finding a way so that she can get baptized! So amazing! She also came to church for the first time yesterday! :] We are seeing more and more progression with Carey. We had a fireside with Elder Marlin K Jensen of the Seventy on thursday night and carey as well as 3 other of our investigators came! They felt the spirit so strong and it was amazing. Carey, as well as the rest of them said that it felt like Elder Jensen was talking straight to them and no one else. How cool. From that Carey made a HUGE step towards baptism! He is so awesome! and to think that 2 months ago he did not have a testimony at all...I beleive that he is the reason I was here in green valley. I love it here but I feel a transfer coming. But I know that whereever I go it will be a new adventure and new people and new miracles. I feel like Ive talked to everyone and their dog plus their goldfish 4 times since ive been here in the promised land of green valley haha. Its funny. We are tight with all the people! We got a new Ward Mission Leader and I am so excited about the enthusiasm he has for the work! It is true that where ever the members work hard for missionary work, the work for the full time missionaries EXPLODE! I love the work and it is such a blessing to be here.

Mommy and Daddy, I had something happen to me that has never happened before. I woke up one day last week bawling because I just had a dream that you both died in the same week! PLEASE BE SAFE AND FOLLOW THE SPIRIT IF THERE IS DANGER! I was bawling because it felt so real. I also had a dream that hannah was calling my name and I tried to run to her but cassie wasnt letting me hahaha. Wow cas, how dare you! ;] Weird dreams as a missionary. I also have dreams about teaching. Sister Garners last companion would talk in her sleep but the funniest part is that she taught lessons in her sleep out loud hahahahahaha. Hilarious!

My sunglasses are gone and no where to be found. I am STRUGGLING without a good pair of glasses. It is horrible. I keep hoping that they will turn up but they havent yet....

So we had the most amazing zone conference this week! Elder Jesen Trained us basically all friday long and wow, how incredible! I learned so much! I got to shake his hand and talk with him. It was pretty cool. OUr investigator carey got to meet him too......im not sure if he knows what that means yet but when he does he will realize how special of an experience it was. I sang for the zone conference and it went really well. The song was gorgeous. I was thinking about having someone record it.....I am singing in quial ridge ward this sunday so maybe I will have them record it then. But I will never forget............we sat down after sister Vander Does and I sang and Elder Jensen looked down at me and mouthed the words "that was soooo gorgeous." I just cant beleive a gereneral authority has heard me sing. I felt really blessed. I also sang at the Whitney Ranch ward this last week. Im just singing all over the place! We recieved alot of revelation for our investigators at the zone conference. We are so stoked! I think that we have had 900 baptisms in our mission this year so far.

We also did a day of service on the dark side (the west mission hahaha) and cleaned out empty house lots for a while. Dad and Mom I am so grateful that you taught me how to work because, honestly, I was one of the only missionaries out of all the elders and sisters that were working hard! I looked around and all the elders were standing around....yea......thats why I want a hardworking husband someday. I want someone that is going to work super hard beside me, not watching me do all the work. These elders were showing me what to avoid like the plague lets just say that. hahaha. But it felt good to do that much physical labor. We were pulling out bushes, raking up the dirt, picking up garbage, pulling out roots etc. It was hard work and a sister showed up most of the elders, thats all im saying hahaha. Wow you saw my sassy side just there.

Right after that, even when we were all dirty we went to the temple to have a lesson with Balil! It was amazing. He set himself for baptism nov 26th. It was amazing. I just wanted to scream and shout for joy! :] I was sooooooooo happy!

Everything is going well in green valley! Know that I love you and I miss you all! I was grateful for the stuff I got from Nick today because I see the letters dwindling. He always makes my day! Im so thankful for him! :] Hes amazing.

Wow I cant think of anything else. I love the work and I miss you but this is the place that I am supposed to be! MWAH MWAH! Tell my babies that I give them kisses and loves. XOXOXOXOXO

I know I am forgeting so much but I AM sending a package today! I thought I was going to get it out last week but it was an insane week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will try to put some more things in there. Here are some pictures too! Love you lots! Please take care of yourselves.

She's 4 Months Old!

Hello my family and Friends,

Wonderful things are happening in Nevada Las Vegas, unfortunatley no baptisms yet but sister Garner and I are working our tails off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This picture is a picture of me right now as I am on the computer. I love you guys and as you can see im not getting too fat on my mission, hannah guessed right that I would basically stay the same. That is true but I guess im not as muscly! I am DYING not being able to work out as much as I want. And at the same time member are shoving huge meals and desserts of all kinds in our faces without taking no for an answer. It is pretty intense. Please take care of everything that I send you because I do want to save it for the rest of my life. I just want to show you cool stuff so that you can feel closer to me and what I am doing.

Thank you for the addresses. That will help alot! And the pictures are so gorgeous of nah nah! and omgosh I love hearing about Britton growing! Is his voice changing yet? hahaha. I love it! It sounds like I will be a small human compared to him when I get home! hahahaha. I love it. Can you believe that I am already 4 months old? Well this week I will be. Insanity. It goes by so fast. I had a dream last night that I was no longer on the mission and it was a nightmare. I cant imagine being anywhere else right now. I can see that I will have a really hard time adjusting when I get home. I might ask for an extension, but that is too far away to think about that! THere is too much work to be done!!!!! And sister Garner and I havent baptized yet! It has been really frusterating but I know that I cant be dissapointed in myself because we are working our tails off, its just not the Lord's time yet. We are soooooooooo close with Carey its not even funny. His date was set for the 22nd and now we have to push it back even more because of some things but im sad if I am leaving green valley in the next few weeks because then I will miss these people getting baptized. Well, thats not true I guess. If I stay in the las vegas valley then I will be able to go to the baptisms if I have a part in the program. So I told sister Garner to get me a part in each program so I can come! hahaha. I love the mission mommy and daddy. It is the best thing that I have ever done in my life. I just wish that I can progress more and more! Because I have so much that I need to work on its not even funny. One of the things that I pray for all the time is for the Lord to help me with my self-consciousness. I constantly say in my head that I am a horrible missionary but I know that in reality it is not true. Satan gets to me that way. I wish that for ONCE I could just give myself a break from being so hard on myself. But it will come! I just need to develop patience so I can be patient with that!

Wow all my friends are getting married and having babies, so crazy. I feel like I am missing so much but at the same time I know that I would be missing out on more if I didnt come here. I love LAS VEGAS!

Sister Garner and I are having lots of fun! We still have our hard times but I feel like I can be more patient and loving than I could before. I still have alot to work on. I try to look at how I treat sister Garner and it is prolly going to be the way that I treat my eternal companion so I know what I need to work on. I am far from perfect!  Momma I need some more sprintec, I just started a new month yesterday if that helps you have enough time to get some to me. I am good on the Zoloft for now. My jaw hates me but what can I say, It will prolly just be that way for the rest of my life. I cant wait until the ressurection!!!!!! :] Wow I am such an awkward missionary hahahaha.

Oh, the people I live with.................um yea. Not very nice people at all. You would think that they would be really sweet and make us food all the time and want to hear about our days but no they could care less about us being there. Its pretty sad. But I hope that we bring a special spirit in their home. We are grateful to live there though! It is a great home. We have our little room, and a bathroom that is all ours. They also have a fridge for us in the garage.

So my new goal is to sing in every ward that I serve! And I have dates to do that before I am potentially transferred. If I got to pick, I would stay for another transfer just so I can help these people get baptized. Dad were you ever an assistant to the mission President? You seem like you would be one of those missionaries. I see you daddy as a great example for me as I go throughout my days because I know that you did serve like ammon. I hope that I make you proud daddy and mommy. But I always fall short. Im doing my very best and doing EVERYTHING I can to be exactly obedient. I love this gospel, I know it is true. So good news, the Assistants to the President called me the other day and asked if I would sing with another one of the sisters in our mission at a fireside. But this is not just any fireside, it is the time of year where a general authority comes to the mission and speaks to us all. The General authority is J.E. Jensen of the seventy and he will be there while we sing! I am sooooooooo excited!

One cool thing is that we watched the restoration in chinese with Ling this past week! So cool! She came to all of church yesterday, it was awesome!

Give all my little babies a kiss and love for me. I love you all and miss you so much! You are an amazing family and I love you!

Love yours truly, Sister Fine

"Choose for yourselves to be exactly obedient!"

Hello family and friends,

Wow through the week I think of so many things that I want to tell you and when I get here in this creepy family history room I forget everything...............greatt........haha.

Sister Garner and I have been laughing non stop for a week or so. We are haing so much fun! 

Just recently we had a change in our rules concerning our schedule. The change in the rules have not been my favorite either because the rules now are more laid back but finally I said to hear on our walk this morning, "Lets do something about it!" Because we had seen a great decrease in our numbers since that change in rules took place. So we decided to make a way that we can measure our success daily in a npercentage form so that we can improve. In preach my gospel it says that "where performance is measured, performance is increased." Something like that. But I took on the responsibility of making a poster reminding us about all the components that we are measuring. The components are..........#1 Promptness #2 Budgeting Miles, Minutes and Money #3 is Members at Lessons and #4 is How many people we do not talk to that we could have. I know that as we put this together that it was inspired through prayer. If we measure in percentage and we know exactly where we are lacking then we will be able to improve that area, and in return, OBEDIENCE = BAPTISMS! I am so excited about this new thing that me and sister Garner put into place. Dont worry, it is under that same rules that president Neider has set in place but I know that his rules have become more relaxed so that we can govern ourselves and CHOOSE for OURSELVES to be EXACTLY OBEDIENT! I am so excited.

Unfortunatley lately the 9 that we had set for baptism turned into 3 over the past few weeks. I have been so confused by this because we have been working so hard! But I know that it is all in the Lord;s time and I just need to be patient. I think that he is testing us to see if we will be more obedient by instituting something on our own that will keep us more accountable. I KNOW that this thing that we have made WILL WORK! Just know that I am working hard. I have gotten down on myself because I feel like people losing their date is my fault, but I know that that is just satan tempting me. But anyways, I realize that and dont worry I will just keep punching satan in the face.

What else has happened this week? Oh I will explain the pictures. One of them is just me being weird, the other one is me eating a rice krispy treat with the wrapper on it because I was hungry and we aren't allowed to eat in the car (I really didn't eat the wrapper), hahaha Best friend socks (sister Kocheivar the bishops wife in green valley gave us these pairs of socks but we decided that they are best friend socks and that we will each have one of each pair),me and matt and olga's boys named nathaniel and elijah (they are my sticker monsters and I freaking love them so much). 

Weather is cooling down and it makes me so happy. I literally am freezing my bummy off and it is 60 degrees. You think im acclimated? I think so. Going from 115 to 60 in a couple weeks is insanity. I have been wearing my beloved sweatpants and sweatshirts, it has been so weird, and I have been in great need of long sleeves, but dont worry, a horder that we were helping clean up is the same size as me and she gave me all these never been worn shirts! We are the same size!

We set Ruby for baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited for her! We did a pretty involved lesson with her at the church. It was amazing. I will explain more of it on the tape. I love ruby!

I have a feeling that I am going to be transferred before I see the fruit of my labor. But hopefully I will still be in valley so that I can travel to the baptisms. But if I am transferrred out to Elko or Blythe CA or Kingman AZ I can pretty much count that out.

Honestly I fell in LOVE with the people here. It does feel like home, well not quite but yea :]

I had a sweet experience yesterday in testimony meeting. I just started bawling in sac mtg because I was so thankful to be a missionary! So after I calmed down I went up and bore my testimony. Well I was covering the quail ridge and green valley wards by myself yesterday because sis garner was in Whitney ranch. So I got to bear my testimony 2 times because that is my goal anyway!

I sang on the spot for an activity yesterday. Apparently word is getting out that I can sing because everyone is asking me! I am singing in quail ridge ward on 5th sunday.

I LOVED THE TAPE! I LAUGHED SO HARD! IT WAS AMAZING! Wow dad you are a weirdy and holy crap I loved hearing your voices.

Love you gotta go! Miss you all! and Hurrah for Israel!

Sister Fine