Week 55

Short email this week. We've been running around today, Sister Bost went to the temple!!! And I stayed here and hung out with a member of the ward!! Its been pretty fun!! Its been anywhere from 9 degrees to 25 degrees the past week! We're supposed to get a foot of snow tonight!

 

Hmmmm here's some things that happened this week:

-we blew up a heart shaped peep in our microwave (dang those things get huge before they explode!)

-I put a tattoo mustache on my finger and we took funny pictures

-we taught singing time in the primary

-We had an awesome valentines day. We went to ihop to celebrate and then we ding dong ditched fun stuffed animals at some other sisters door.

-some Asian child stared at Sister Bost while we were tracting. and didn't open the door for us.

-We drove in a crazy blizzard. Within 2 minutes the temperature had dropped 10 degrees and we couldn't see 3 feet in front of us. needless to say, we went straight home

-I discovered that Im a boss at pullups

 

That's it! Have a good week!! :)

 

Hey mom!! Thanks for the package!!! :) I quite enjoyed it!!!

 

The insanity workout thing sounds like fun!!! Does it cost a lot??? My exercise plan totally failed!! ha ha this is the first area that I've had some sort of gym, so luckily I can go running basically every single day, which is a blessing! I ditched the workout plan and just do some other random stuff usually. My companion and I have a workout plan together! Sometimes we'll be super good at following it and other times we won't be. She wants to go into the Marines, so she wants to work her butt into shape so it'll be an easier transition!

 

Wait whoa!! I totally had no idea that they were planning on leaving that soon!! hmm yeah we'll have to figure out what to do about my homecoming! ha ha if necessary I could just fly down there and visit them for a couple days or something...hmmm it'd probably be cheaper that way too..who knows! We'll figure it out.

 

Wait so did Kemi get accepted to BYUI then since she had to register??

 

uuhh...and nope....I totally didn't wait on opening the box hahahah although I did wait about a  week, then two days before I was like, "hmmmmmmm" hahah.

 

anyyyywhooo! have a good week! love ya!!:)

 

 

 

Week 54

Well....to start off...I saw a car this week..and it was a transformer!! ha ha my companion and I were taking a recent convert out to get some froyo and we were driving along and Sister Bost all of the sudden goes, "Hey look, that car is a transformer!". I glanced over confused. Saw the legit car and then I took off driving after it and I started yelling, "OH MY GOODNESS GET MY CAMERA, HOLY COW!!! ARE YOU GETTING IT?? IS THE PICTURES TAKING!??!?" hahah so I completely drove PAST the froyo places in an attempt to chase the car in front of me and the recent convert in our car was like, "BUUUUUT WHAT AAABBBOUUUUT FROYOOOOO!?!??!??" ha ha we were all just dying of laughter and luckily we got a good picture...so i'll have to send it!

So we had a slightly awkward, and very funny experience this past week. We had called a random less active woman, whom we had never met, in order to set up a time to come meet her. From our records it looked like her husband was not a member. So we call up this number and it was a man who answered the phone, "Hello Sisters!!! How are you? What can I do for you?" JACKPOT!! sounds like a very receptive nonmember. So we asked him if we could come over for an appointment next week and instead he offered to feed us. Awesome!! So we were quite excited. So the day of our appointment comes and we pull up to this gated community and we give the address to the gatekeeper, and a few seconds later...he comes back out with a phone and says..."Ummm...the owner wants to speak with you". So I get on the phone and the female says, "hello??Who is this? How do I know you"  "umm well this is Sister Quinton and Sister Bost! we talked to you last week and you'd invited us over for dinner...?" she replied, "I have no idea who this is..." . So we hang up the phone and we called the number on our ward list. The guy answers and says, "you're lost aren't you?". Come to find out...the person who we had called was the father of the person we had just tried to visit. The father is a member, but his daughter, who we had just tried to see, was not even a member!!! ha ha and the Dad lived about an hour away!!! It was really funny.

This week we talked about how each person has a "spirit voice". Whenever they feel the spirit people talk different. Watch for it at church :)

Anywho! have a good week!! love you all!! :)

Hey mom! Oh so with the You Are Special book, we first started talking about Hero's and who each of the kids Hero's are and why they are Hero's. Then we read the book and told them to look for who the main characters hero was. Then we talked about how our hero's aren't hypocritical people. Then we tied it into how actions speak louder than words and we did a fun demonstration. We had three rounds. We had three different kinds of candies and we had the kids all close their eyes and we gave each of them a "Smartie". We told them that this was some type of food and that it was very sweet. then we let them eat it. On the second round, again they closed their eyes and we had gave them each a war head. Before they ate it, we told them that this candy was even sweeter than the first, and that they were going to really enjoy it. So they put it into their mouths and half of them spit it out because they thought it was going to be sweet, but then realized we had lied to them and that it was actually extremely sour. Then on the final round, we told them they would really like it and gave them a small Cadbury egg and told them to eat it, and several of them said, "why? Is this one going to be sour too??" then they realized it was sweet. We went on to explain that they had trusted us at first because the taste was what we said it was. But because we had lied on the second one, they were a lot more hesitant on the third one.

We then talked about how we need to do what we are saying we will do. If we tell people that we're a Mormon and then go around school having a sailors mouth, then people will hold us in less esteem and they wont necessarily believe us. But if we practice what we preach, then people will believe us. Then afterwards we pulled out a cake and ate it :) ha ha it was really fun. We had to keep them interacting and entertained because its the 14 and 15 year olds and we knew they'd be rowdy! it was really good though.

We did not have any more alarm fiascos!! thank goodness!!! ha ha

Oh my goodness I didn't know that Ava was in dance!!! ha ha cuuuuuute you'll have to take a lot of pictures!!!

Week 53

What a week. 

Well I think the most interesting thing that happened this week was a fire alarm went off. at 2 in the morning. Ha ha Ok...so let me rewind back...so my companion and I have sleep overs...with ourselves in the front room every p day eve. So we pull our mattresses out in the front room and fell asleep like normal. 2 am, I almost peed my pants because the fire alarm was so loud. And to make it even funnier, we live in a handicapped room, so they make the alarm like 10 times louder, as well as they have these crazy strobe light things. So I wake up an start jumping out of bed, then I realize that I'm going to be freezing because its like 20 degrees outside, so I grab my blanket, grab my glasses, throw all of my other blankets on the floor, meanwhile, Sister Bost is stuck in her blankets, so she's trying to kick them off, but failing miserably, she finally jumps up, trips over my blankets that are on the floor, runs into the wall because of the crazy strobe lights going off. I'm trying not to run into the door because I also can't see due to the strobe light.

Finally we make it out into the hallway and it's completely empty. Not a soul in sight. The thought that ran through my head was, "oh no....someone's killed all of the residents and now they're coming for us..." ha ha so we start running down the hallways trying to find someone, ANYONE, and finally after about 5 minutes, old people slowly start filing out of their apartments, and into the lobby After probably 20 minutes, the fire department gets here. and we found out....that a sprinkler had caused the fire alarm. One of them just went off for no reason. 

So we all head back to our rooms. Its about 3 am now..we get back in bed...fell asleep....3:30 comes an another alarm goes off..ha ha so we again jump out the door, and find its another false alarm. We go back to sleep. and a random person that we know calls us at 4am. ha ha apparently we weren't meant to sleep that night. 

It was such a funny experience. The next morning all of the missionaries were in the gym an we just sat there, completely dead....ha ha no one even made an attempt to work out. It was so hilarious. we found out that one of the elders had completely slept through the fire alarm. WHAT?? ah aha it was quite the adventure, that's for sure. 

Last night I learned some super funny things that I hadn't ever heard before! It was about bananas. So in mexico they grow a lot of bananas on the banana plantation and apparently, in the store...when it has the different types of bananas, (valley, organic, etc.) its all the same. Literally. all of the bananas came from the same place, they were just given to different companies. even the organic bananas. there's nothing different about them. And then when they need another banana tree, they simply pick off a banana, and plant it. Yes. They literally plant the banana. 

Oh also!! On my homecoming...I have a couple missionary friends that already said they want to come up for a couple of days ha ha so we might have like five people crashing our house when I get back;) h ha

I also got to accompany someone for a musical number. Ha ha that was a random experience! 

Well anyyyywho, that's the craziest thing that happened this week! have a good one!

Week 52

It's been a great week!!! So much random stuff has happened!

According to Virginia we got, "snowed in"....and that classifies as about 2 inches. and we were allowed to drive anywhere. So! My companion and I visited a bunch of old people in our apartment complex and then a bunch of missionaries came in so we had a great jam session on the piano in the main room. It was great! We had so much fun! ha ha 

oh!  Happy year mark to me! Whaaaat!! Can't believe its here, time has been flying!! And for some reason it keeps getting faster and faster! 

So one of the awkwardest things that happens on a mission is when you knock on someones door and you hear them talking, but then they go silent. and then no one answers the door. Its really funny when it happens, but then I just feel like banging on the door and yelling, "I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE I CAN HEAR YOU!!!" ha ha but hey, that wouldn't be very nice;) 

I'm not sure what it is....but people out here now think that I'm older than I am. What! ha ha before my mission people usually thought about 15 or 16, and now everyone says 22. THAT'S a change. Apparently Cabe and I are twinsies and we didn't even know it! 

We made a fun birthday cake for someones birthday this week. They don't like sweets, so we made a fruit cake. with fruit dip underneath and then we made fruit in the shape of an american flag, we felt pretty cool, but yeah...

Well that's about it! ha ha there's always too much to share, and type out so i'll have to fill you in on all the stories at some future point! lol 

Oh man. We're going to have to train everyone back home to eat lots of ethnic food. I have some fun stuff out here. Lebanese, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Lous, you name it!! Its so fun!!! I've decided that there's places that I wont ever be able to eat at again, so might as well try something random, and if someone offers me a crazy dish...well...I'm going to try at least one!!! Its really fun to experiment!! Some things are better than I thought they would be!!

I'm pretty sure that when I get back from my mission, I'll pretty much just be spending all day looking at different religious books and reading them! ha ha most of them we can't read while we are on our mission, because of lack of time, and we need to be studying for our investigators. But I've gotten several titles of books that sounds awesome!! One of them is talking about the plan of salvation and it has a questions and answer section of things that are true and false that people have misconceptions about. It's really cool and it only takes things from what the prophets and apostles have said. It's really neat! 

Is unpasteurized milk legal in Washington??? ha ha because its SO good. I'll have to explain more about that some other time. But milk straight out of the cow is so much better for you and it tastes better, and the milk in the stores they actually put bleach in it, because normal milk is a yellowish tinged color! ha ha I've learned all sorts of random facts out here!!! and I put raw eggs in smoothies all the time (but you have to get a certain type of egg, because a lot of the normal store bought eggs are really old and could give you salmonella, but not when you do it right!!) :) ha ha well...there's a bunch of random info for you;) 

I stole a cat the other day and I started telling the member family about how fat with fur Kara & Quentin's cat Aries was!! lol

Have a good week!!

Love you!

Week 51

There isn't tons to update on this week! Its been really good! Sister Bost is still being awesome as usual. We've been having some great adventures this week.

We had a barbarian dinner, where we used no silverware or plates. then.....it ended up turning into a barbarian AND no hands dinner. ha ha it was pretyt great! and very messy!!

We also had the opportunity to bake a member of the ward a cake and drop it by her house. We did it very sneakily and we signed the note, "from the sneaky birthday elves"...we felt so cool;) ha ha

The final cool thing is that we had a mission conference with Elder Perkins and Elder Hallstrom of the Quorum of the 70. They came and talked a lot about how we need to walk the staircase of faith. Faith is an action. Is was great! The spirit was really strong.

I'll try to spend more time on the general email next week!! :) love everyone!

Oh my goodness pho is awesome!!! it tastes great. We've got several people from Lous/Cambodia and they make it so good! I've never had it from a restaurant though! It tastes awesome. I'll have to start calling it p. ho though!!! Maybe i'll convince my companion that that's how its said then whenever we're at a members house who makes it, we'll sound really classy ;)

Dude we made an awesome cake this week. It's one of the "better than sex' cakes, but sister bost likes to call it "better than whatever" hahaha its SO good though. It's got heath on the top, and condensed milk, and caramel and whip cream and stuff. Delicious.

I want to be able to cook a ton of food from a bunch of cultures someday. I think that'd be awesome!! Chinese, and Lous and, italian and Indian.. yum yum we tried an authentic dish from new mexico. its got pulled pork in it and the member family was telling us of the history behind how it was pulled pork...it used to be a dish that cannibals made...but then they eventually saw the light and decided that they should stop being cannibals...so they decided to put pulled pork in it because apparently it tastes the most like human flesh. ha ha gross to think about right?? And of course they told us this story as we were eating it,;) ha ha but it taste awesome! I'm going to get the recipe....lol anywho, have a wonderful week! love ya!

Received this photo and an email from a member in Kali's mission.

The Keller's Wrote:"They are wonderful! They helped us move 3 couches and a big Christmas tree. We Love them!!"

Week 50

Hey so I don't have much to say this week, but it's been going great so far!! 

Sister Bost is a BOSS. she's great. the first couple days were an adjustment, but now she's jumping right in there and is doing great!!! We're having a lot of fun. 

From what I've seen, whenever missionaries have trained they seem to get so caught up in trying to be the perfect missionary, the perfect companion, that they forget to have fun. They forget to be themselves, and they forget that they don't have to be perfect, because Christ already did that. So I'm showing sister Bost how to have fun while doing the missionary work, because when you think about it, it can be really fun, if you allow it to be. She's going to be (and already is) a great missionary. 

 

oh yeah and she's from Texas...I feel like I'm going to have an accent before I'm done with her hahahaha.

 

Our bishop has told us several hilarious things the other day. One of the funniest ones was that as we were talking about missionary work, he randomly pulled out a talk about steady dating versus hanging out, and he started telling us about how apostles had counseled us not to steady date in high school, but that once we were out of high school (or back from a mission) that they counseled us TO steady date. The funny part of this conversation was when he paused for a second then said, "so. I've sent this as well as a few other talks to a couple of my single, return missionary sons, because they need to repent and just get married!!!!" it was pretty funny. 

 

But anywho. not much to share this week! love you all!! have a good week! 

Week 49

Happy new year!! 

 

I cant believe that its already 2015!! Its amazing how fast time flies. Wow. Things can change so fast!!! 

I had a really great week!! 

New years eve was awesome. We ended up watching two Disney movies with our zone at the stake presidents house. It was a fun adventure and felt SO weird. 

There isn't really much to update on this week. Transfers are happening and I think this is the one transfer where I truly have no idea what is going to happen. Usually I have some sort of inkling, but this transfer seems...blank? Its really interesting, I'm curious as to what will happen. 

Something neat happened this week. Sister Williams and I were practicing for a lesson that we had that night and I was teaching her and she was pretending to be the person. As I was talking she was drawing on a poster. She was paying attention, her hands were just occupied. However, i felt like I needed to switch our lesson plan a little bit and started talking about Joseph smith and the restoration instead. As I was talking she continued to draw, however, as soon as I started to quote the first vision she unconsciously stopped what she was doing and looked up. 

There is truly power in Joseph smith's experience. There's been times in lessons where in members homes everything seems to become really still. Whereas in future members home...( ha ha) that's when the dog starts barking, the phone starts ringing, etc. there's definitely power in those words. And it was neat to see that happen even in a practice teach. anywho, have a good week!

Love you!!