"I am ADDICTED to the Book of Mormon! When you read it, you WILL receive understanding!"

For January 23rd:

Hello! From the hood of sunrise. We are doing really well and loving every second of the missionary work. Yes that is twue I turned 7 months old yesterday! Wowee. Intense. Its weird to think that I only have 11 months left. That is NOT ENOUGH TIME! Sister Hanny and I are like sisters and it is amazing doing the work with her. We laugh and work it is great! We have seen amazing blessings from the lord this last week. Our area just started exploding! The first 3 weeks we had 0 at church, last week we had 2 at church and this week we had 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing! I am so thankful for the members here because they were so willing to give people rides and to help the missionary work along. WE NEED THE MEMBERS! SO DESPERATELY ALL THE TIME! And that is for ALL missionaries, so whenever you can lend a hand to the sisters GO FOR IT! Have you had them over for dinner or been out to a lesson with them or something? Seriously, considering what I know and what I look for in members, YOU GUYS would be so amazing in lessons. You all have strong testimonies! Hannah! YOU CAN GO WITH THEM BECAUSE YOU ARE OVER 16! Im sure they would love to have you! :] I thank God for our family every night and I am so thankful for the love that we all have for one another. 

On my mission my testimony has been strengthened about many things but forever families is one of them. I have to tell you that I LOVE my personal study in the morning. I am ADDICTED to the Book of Mormon. SInce I have read it about 6 times I am now starting to get more out of it. Obedience pays off....when you read it...you WILL receive understanding. I am on Alma 35 right now. This week is the Last week of the transfer and sister Hanny and I are predicting that we will stay together since we were DT'd into the area and since I got trashed from my last area. So we will see. But man this has been the FASTEST transfer of my life. I am loving the work here in the hood. I think I make this area because I am SOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDD! hahaha jk jk. Wow the storm sounds really bad. Im kinda cold too but its like 50 degrees here. Its crazy how you acclimate. It sounds like the storm was a blessing to me. Hahaha. Just the fact that it allowed the ward to come together, our family to come together, gave daddy a break to breathe, etc etc. I am so thankful that the house and everything was okay. Its crazy how much we DO take for granted. I am so thankful for my bed, our car, heat, running water, a way to communicate quickly, paper, etc etc. Anyways now im in a less serious mood because sister hanny and I just watched our hilarious videos on her camera. It was great! 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE cassie and John's pics and wonders. Amazing! Britton thank you for that email..........I think it was Britton anyway....it sounded like him hahahaha. I love you little boy. I love you cas, nah , sha, britt, cade, momyul and dadyul. You are amazazazazing. Heres a cool experience.....SO we are teaching this couple their names are Jay and Tina and they have the cutest boys ever! We were over at their house teaching them and we brought bishop davis. At the End we were talking about how they were going to get to church and they had NO WAY to get there. So we told them that we would find them a ride. Then Bishop looked at them and said "hey do you want my truck?" Jay looked at him and was laughing like bishop was kidding. Yea........he wasn't kidding. He offered to let them have his truck for a day so he could get his family to and from church. Isnt that amazing? The spirit of the Lord came into the room faster than you could imagine. Jay and tina was speechless and Jay started to cry. Just to let you know, this was the first time that Bishop had met them. As we were walking out of the door, we said to him..."bishop, you are amazing...thank you." And he said in response, "I have always said that I am willing to give all that I have.......well except for my wife hahaha." Well we told bishop that we have to be able to atleast borrow her because she is amazing. Bishop Davis and his wife are amazing people. Did you get a hold of them yet? Sister Hanny and I told them that we are adopting them. No big. 

Also we had zone conference this week and wow it was amazing. Also we have temple this week with green valley so I will get to see garnerface at the temple! SOOOOOOOO EXCITED! I love her so much! Carey got the priesthood last week. I feel like he was the reason that I came out. I love that guy. Every time I get a letter from him I am filled with the Holy Ghost. Eternal friends for sure. At zone conference sister Neider gave a lesson on what the word of wisdom really means and wow I can tell you that I am not on sugar anymore, and we are drinking green shakes. SO AMAZING! I love them. I have so much more energy and I am able to do the lord's work better. We do have a dessert every once and a while since sometimes members dont take no for an answer hahaha but ya know...what can you do. I feel great! This week we took our 10 yr old alazia to an achievement day activity and WOW it was the most involved activity I have EVER seen! Lets just say I found my wedding decorator and photographer. hahaha. JK but seriously most creative person I have ever met. Wow. I will be keeping her info for the future hahaha. 

So we have a door at the front of the new house that we are living in and WE FIGHT. I hate the door with a passion because he hates me. It takes forever and a day to lock it right and close it right. He says "oh you are in a hurry???? TOOO BAD!" hahaha I just thought I would mention about the adventures we have with the door. The other day we had a really bad wind storm and it was just bad for proselyting. You are SO welcome for the package. I am glad that you liked it. Beware of the end of the tape........its dangerous hahaha. Just know that sister Hanny is my companion....hahaha. I cant wait til you meet her someday. Sister hanny thinks I will train soon. I have no idea though. Lots of work! Daddy you NEVER told me about if you trained or was a district leader or anything! I WANNA KNOW hahaha! Love you all and I will be sending pics in a sec. Miss you and take care my little babies!

"I've never been happier in my life!"

Hey family! 

Heres the word from Las vegas nevada! Yes there are already ice cream trucks driving around because it is already getting warm and garage sales going on every weekend. Actually I dont think the ice cream trucks ever stopped driving around. I still feel freezing because it is like 50 or 60 degrees but that does make us a little worried for the summer. It sounds like the summer is going to be a brutal 125 degrees. I will die. Dont worry atleast it will be on my mission hahaha so I will die happy. Things are going so great here in sunrise. Our area is about to explode I can feel it! We have a few investigators but we are looking for the elect elect because we only have 18 months on our mission to harvest the field. The Lord's promise says in D&C 4 that the field IS white already to harvest. So although it is important to plant seeds, there are people ready to harvest. So I really believe that Carey was one of the main reasons I came on my mission. He writes me every week and I JOY so much in everything that he tells me. He is growing every week and wow I love that guy so much! I will seriously visit him every time I can after the mission. Everyone that I have had a privelege of teaching are my favorite people in the whole world! Besides my family of course! :] :] 

I love you guys so much and wow the lord has blessed me so much with my family and my loved ones! I have been missing hearing from Corinne, Carly, Brittney, Lacey and lots of others. I miss them and it sounds like there are a lot of things hapening in their lives. Tell them I say hi and I love them and I hope that they are doing good with everything! XOXOXO Medicine has been good. I did have a couple of bad days last week but I have been able to feel the spirit a little more so that is the only important thing. I LOVE MY MISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey can you guys answer my questions I sent you? I feel like my questions go into this endless black hole hahahahahaahahaha. I hope that I am doing better at answering back to everything that you write. That is crazy about the jolleys! WAY COOL! Josh is an awesome guy! I remember when our families and the laytons and kralls would all play with each other when we were young! :]

Last night we went to a why I believe fireside and we took 2 of our investigators and they seemed to enjoy it. Afterwords leslie (one of the Investigators who attended) was so excited that when we got back to her house that we would give her a book of mormon. I know that she is going to get baptized it is just a matter of when. :] I went to ruby's baptism on sat and I sang at her baptism (I feel my saviors love). It was really good and spiritual. I loved the moment when her and her dad went into the water. I had a flashback of all the times sister matthew and sister garner and I went to go teach her and it was a long time coming but when it happened wow. As his dad say the baptismal prayer, he started to bawl. The spirit flooded into the room. I think that it was the most spiritual baptism I have ever been to. She is such a sweet little girl. I didnt get to see carey at the baptism because he had to work but I am glad that he had work! :] Carey and I keep in touch weekly. He is amazing! 

What else do I want to say? HMMMMMMMMMMMM....................Sister hanny and I are doing really well. This transfer is seriously flying by...............insanity. We are already on week 5 and I feel like I JUST came from Elko.   I told sister rosenthal that you guys appreciated her and the whole skype thing. She said that she had lots of fun doing it! Oh heres a story. A police officer pulled us over this last week hahaha. Im not driving dont worry hahaha. But it was because out licence plate light was out so after he got our information we street conteacted him and gave him a card! It was AWESOME! We were laughing the entire rest of the night hahahaha. Sister Hanny and I have a blast together. I feel like it is too good to be true. Time is just flying. Can you believe I am 7 months old almost? wow. I cant beleive it! The mission is just too short! hmmmmmmmmmmmmm what else did I want to tell you?. I love it here in sunrise. Its ghetto but that means there are more humble people that are ready to hear the gospel. I love it. Sister Hanny and I work really well together. We are fine tuning things in our teaching but things are going great! I love you all and I hope that you get my package soon. I sent it off. And be careful there is a tape in one of the bags so dont miss it! :] I love you and miss you all so much! I want you to know that my mind is focused and I am wroking as hard as I can. I am learning SO MUCH in the scriptures and I love reading them! They are the best words that anyone could read. Ive never been happier in my life. MWAH I GOTTA GO!

"I hope that you all felt love from me and felt how proud and grateful I am for you each day."

For December 26th:

greetings. Wow yesterday was so amazing but I was thinking last night about all the things that I didn't say. I hope that you all felt love from me and felt how proud and grateful I am for you each day. I felt the spirit so strong as I was talking to you because I am so thankful that we have a family that people that I am teaching are striving for. We must NEVER take for granted that if any of us die tomorrow that we are sealed for time and all eternity. (KNOCK ON WOOD) The plan of salvation is real and I know that God's plan is perfect. I love you and miss you all so much!

Sister Fine

The Best Christmas Present EVER!

Isn't she RADIANT? A beautiful daughter of God serving the Lord.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

"Can you believe I'm seven months old already? I LOVE MY MISSION!"

December 20th: 

Hey so the word is that I got TRANSFER TRASHED! (Transfer trashed means being transferred to a new area only after 6 weeks). THe AP's told me on the phone that the Lord had a special assignment for me this transfer and I am sure for transfers to come. Mom and Dad I can tell you that I did the BEST I could in elko. We got DT'd out of Elko (that means that both sister espinal and I got moved out) and they closed the area for sisters after only 6 months. Usually they leave areas open for sisters for 1 year or so. So that was a huge suprise. It wasn't a suprise that I was leaving though. I am now DT'd in to the SUNRISE area with sister hanny. Sister Hanny was companions with sister matthew and sister garner before they got me. Kinda funny. She is the SAME as me. And she is so loving and kind. I am SO GRATEFUL. I cannot even tell you. I know the Lord knows me and loves me so much that he would place trials in my path so that I could grow to my capacity at the time and then bless me after that small moment. D&C 121.I am really happy. I am so glad that I get to spend christmas with sister hanny. She is amazing! I have much to learn from her. She has been out 11 months and wow I have been out for 6! Crazy huh! A year left I better get a move on! hahaha. So much to do and so little time! 

Getting DT'd out and DT'd in is really crazy! We had to do so much so that the elders coming in would know what the heck is going on. There is ALOT that goes into an area. We spent the last 3 days getting the area books and letting people know that we were leaving and setting appointments up for the elders so they could stay busy. Getting DT'd in is crazy too. In elko we left them lots of information because we wanted to be thorough, but when we came here it was a mess. The area book hadn't been updated for months, we got a list of names of investigators without addresses and a map. So today we have been driving around our area so we can know the boundaries. We have talked to a few people today! SO it has been good. We live with the central zone sisters in this super nice. We have the PRETTIEST VIEW in the world and as we look out the temple is RIGHT THERE. I could walk to the temple in 5 min. Mom and Dad this temple is amazing. I love it so much. If I can I want to get married there if im not an old hag hahaha. I love this area already and it is so weird because one of the boundaries we have is SUPER close to green valley. This last week sister garner sent me programs and pictures from our last few baptisms in green valley. Gerry and Carey. I got to talk to carey right before his baptism. I miss him so much! He is my miracle of the mission. I love him oh man!

In elko (aka the celestial kingdom of the mission) We had a lot of people that were really close to baptism and I hope to hear the stories of their baptism someday. I got really close with the brach president's family for the spanish branch. It was the nielsen family. Pres Nielsen should be calling you any time to set up a hunting trip for after I get home. He showed me some of the hunting pics from his family and wow it would be so much fun to go with them. They reminded me so much of our family. All the kids would attack me everytime they saw me and started taking my hair out of my bun and doing it in pigtails and stuff haha. They are amazing. I was there for such a short time. Oh and I was falling apart in Elko basically because I lost my planner and one of my nametags. We retraced our steps everywhere. I think that my planner was so holy that it was translated to the presence of Heavenly Father. I say that because it is GONE! I looked everywhere. I was really sad because I wanted to send it home so that I could keep it. But maybe God will restore it to me in the celetial kingdom. haha.

The pictures are of sister espinal and I at transfer conference, last morning at morning sports, christmas party for the elko 3rd ward, me in elko and I will attach some other pics on another email. It only lets me attach 4.

For skype. We have church til 12. We have two wards now. The names are WASHINGTON AVE and MTN VISTA wards. Funny huh! haha Plan on skyping with me between 1 and 5 pm. We are going over to the lady's house that is going to let us skype and we will have her call you so that you know when to expect me. I love you and I am so excited to talk to you it will be awesome. MWAH MWAH MWAH! Well better get back to work. Lots to do lots to do! (Michael Scott) hahaha. ow there is so much to say but I dont have any more time! Love you! I got a card from gma and gpa, a package from grama fine and I got your package yesterday in hendersen! I will prolly not go back to elko so you can just get rid of that address haha. Love you and I will talk to you on christmas. Thinking of you in this season. Mom its okay if you cry! But please be happy you silly gosling haha. I love the pictures that you sent and I love the christmas cards I burst out laughing SOOOOOOO HAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD. XOXOXO bye bye! So proud of my little babies.

Sister Fine

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 :)