She loves dogs, but HATES Dog Hair!

Happy New p-day! :]

This is really akward having p-day on mon, but I know that it is only a matter of time before I get used to it. I think today was the first day I havent had mail hahaha. Im sure all the elders here are going to give me a hard time about it because I am the only one that gets mail. haha. I am very grateful for all the emails this week! I just finished ANOTHER tape for you guys and I am sending it off today. I am still waiting for a tape so that I can laugh really hard hahahaha. I cant wait! When I just think of you guys saying the things you write me I just laugh out loud hahaha. I think all the other missionaries prolly think im a psycho hahaha.

This week has been rough. But thats how missionary work goes. I have been crazy humbled this week. I have never felt this way before. I have never felt so inadequate. One by one all of our appointments cancelled on us almost every day. SO it was really hard. Also, our solid investigators either dropped us or didn't come to church yesterday. Very frusterating. I know that I just need to be more obedient and pray harder. We are really trying to help our investigators to understand the importance of keeping their commitments of reading, praying, and coming to church. That has been a struggle. I realized that you can do NOTHING without the spirit. Anyways things are going to be hard, I know that. Obviously there are some things that I really need to learn right now. Me and my companion still struggle. I am really trying hard to be patient amidst her half of the room being completely filthy and the other little things that drive me insane. But considering how I was before the mission, I think that I am doing better. I do love her. She is amazing and we have a good time most of the time. She is going through a lot of hard stuff in her life right now and I am doing my best help her with everything. She is very strong and she keeps getting stronger. Although we have some problems, we are still really close. You go through so much hard stuff with the companions you have, how could you not be close? Ya know?

Well anyways, things are good! I am keeping my chin up ;) ;). So we have 2 pets in the house that we live in. One is a black lab (keeper) and one is a psycho kitty (shadow). We ALWAYS have to leave our bathroom and room doors shut or else the cat pees on EVERYTHING! The first time it happened, I went into the bathroom and there was a horrible smell and I was sooooooooo confused. Sister Matthew and I were searching everywhere for the source of the stink! We finally found it and it was on our bathmat. HOW LOVELY. I wanted to kick that cat into the next county (hahaha grandma). And since then it has happened 3 other times. Wow....what a little poop. I always point at the cat with a death glare as I walk by it hahah. Like we really have time in our missionary lives to clean that up....Dont worry mom, I clean it up right away with disinfectant spray and throw the mat in the washer with bleach hahaha. Its insane. Our dog is named keeper and he is so cute. We love him but Im a meanie because I never let him in the room. I always tell him to go out because if he comes in then dog hair gets EVERYWHERE! ahhh hahaha. Hes cute though because he always greets us at the door. We are going to take him for a walk tomorrow morning for morning sport because he never gets to go out of the house. So heres a picture of me and him!

Also the pic of the building is what all of us missionaries call the great and spacious building hahahaha. It is humongous and it is a huge casino in our area. Pretty funny. It is raining today but its still like 95 degrees. I dont even know if I remember what 80 feels like hahahaha. It is usually cooler in the morning but not by much.

I miss all of you guys and I think of you when I have a rough day. I always think of how I want to make you and my heavenly father proud. That gets me through hard times. I wanted to put a picture of our family on the back of one of my tags but the pics of our fam are too big ;) I love it. I treasure everything that you have sent me. I have this binder that I keep all my letters and emails in. Everytime I see it on pday I am just so thankful for all the support I have! THANK YOU THANK YOU! I think the three things that melted my heart the most is seeing the trek pictures, cassie and mala picture, and the girls dance picture on the field. Wow I cant even express words. I miss seeing all of you and being able to give you kisses. I miss sleepovers w nah, getting kisses from the boys, talks with mom and dad, heart to hearts with cas and having shar make me laugh so freaking hard. But I am in the right place and I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY! I pray for you everyday for your safety. I love you! I cant think of anything that has happened really in the last few days. OH WAIT! I sang at a funeral on saturday and it was a good funeral. I was really nervous, because it was someones special special funeral and I didn't want to mess it up but honestly I just sang my guts out and it was so fun. I love to share my testimony with song because sometimes I feel like I can do nothing else. I am FALLING IN LOVE with the people here. I love them all so much. I cannot wait for you to meet them. Can you please give mala the number to the hospital so she can call bob? He really wants to hear from her. I gave you her number and the hospitals number last time. He is having a rough time right now. I love that man. He is the sweetest little stinker pants in the world. If he lives to the end of my mission I want you to meet him. He is in there for kidney failure right now. We call him all the time and teach him over the phone though. He really wants to go to the temple and he is just so sweet. You guys would LOVE HIM! Anyways I have to go but I will talk to you next monday! MWAH MWAH MWAH! xoxoxoxo

Yours truly, Sister Fine

Beautiful Sister Fine!

Sister Fine and Keeper!