Week 59

Yesterday when we got to church I really wanted the cookies that we had in
our back seat. We'd been trying to drop this plateful of cookies off
at a members house for the past few days, but they were just never there! and now we knew that the cookies were not edible enough to still give to them..but I wanted to eat them.
So anywho, we sneakily go to our own back seat before we go into
church and we both bit into a cookie at the same time...and our teeth
stopped.....DANG THOSE COOKIES WERE HARD!! Bahaha but they still
tasted pretty good....we just couldn't bite into them.

We Dropped by a less active sister In the ward. We'd never met her
before, but we were out doing things and I randomly thought that we
should go visit her. So we drop by and she's home! At first she had
this odd look on her face as she looked at us through the window. Then
she slowly opened the door and we explained that we would really like
to set up an appointment to get to know her better. She invited us in
super quick as she looked at her schedule. Right before we were about
to leave, she said she almost had told us to go, but at the last
minute she just thought it could be nice to meet with us and she set
up a time. She told us that she's been inactive for years. And
apparently I've actually met her family, they were in my last area.
They weren't really active either. BUT IM SO EXCITED! :D


 This week...we were also Stuck in the mud...in our car...in someones yard. so that was awkward. We had to call someone to come get us out. We kept trying to put different things under the tires in order to give it some traction....nothing was working!! Eventually we made it out!!

 

Well...that's about it this week! Have a grand week!

 

 

Week 58

HOLY SNOW!!

HEY its been a good week!!! we heard from several people that it was supposed to snow....aaaand

Sister Bost and I decided that it would be smart for us to get a shovel and ice melt. So we headed to the store and didn't find any....went to another store. Nothing. We went to several different places and all of them were out, but for some reason the Stores were packed and traffic was bad! It was a random week day. It's never like that. No place had any shovels or ice melt. Supposedly we are supposed to get 8 inches of snow. And I think people were panicking and they were stocking up on stuff. Seriously. People were going crazy in the stores and loading up on toilet paper and water bottles. It's like they were preparing to be trapped inside for months.

Then, Thursday morning, Holy snow! Well they were right about getting snow. It snowed and snowed and snowed. 

People here are so funny. Whenever it snows like two inches people are say, "sorry! We can't meet today! We're snowed in!"

Margo (a member of our ward) called us, she had fallen again. We weren't allowed to drive. It was right when we were about to eat dinner and we threw everything down and told her that we were coming. She just needed to hold on. It took us about a half hour to walk there

Sister Bost had thrown a sparkly headband away, so j asked her if I could have it. I felt like I was wearing s tiara ha ha and I told sister Bost that she should call me my lady and your majesty. When we got to district meeting, sister Bost pulls out my chair, motions to it and says "your majesty..." And then right as I go to sit down she pulls it backwards!, not enough so that I'd fall in the ground, but just enough so that I would semi fall into it ha ha we both just died laughing and a couple sisters right next to us were pretty confused.

We were supposed to have a lesson with the Ibanez family tonight. But we got to their house and no one was home. I was quite relieved, I didn't really feel like going there tonight, so we left them a note on the door and drove away, about 20 minutes later they called us and asked if we were going to still have a lesson, we said we were headed in the opposite direction, but that we would look over our schedule and see if we had time to come back. But we got there and they had a random friend there. But he said he didn't know much about our church. Haha The Ibañez tricked us! Ha ha we start talking to him about the church and telling him more and then right as he said he was about to go.....we found out that we had just taught a member....it was hilarious!!

The friend had planned this in the car, told sister Ibanez and she said she wasn't sure if they should do it, then she figured, "eh they're good natured sisters, let's do it!" 

While we were our knocking on some potentials, there was a couple pots of flowers outside of one house. Sister bost leaned down to smell them, and as she was going, I realized at they were fake, but she didn't realize that until her face was smashed into the flower ha ha .

A couple weeks ago we received a referral. When we'd asked for the referral it was the little girl who piped up and said, "go visit them! They are Christian that's all I know!" Haha so finally after a couple weeks, we were able to go by today. Imagine my surprise when a member of our Ward answered the door. I stood there speechless and my mouth was moving like a fish. Sister Bost had never met this Ward member before, so she was staring at me very confused. It was hilarious. She invited us in for water and cookies. 

We saw someone in their garage in a storm trooper outfit. Ha ha so classy. We wrote down his house number so that we could go talk to him later. 

anywho, that's about it! have a good week!!

Week 57

So something awesome happened yesterday! We were sitting there doing studies and we got a call from a random number. It was Brother Bold from my first area! He said that he was coming to our Ward because there's a woman who's a nonmember in our Ward and she wants to come to church! SO we got to church and everything...and she didn't show...didn't show....so we were thinking that it was a fake and she wasn't really interested. Buuuuut 5 minutes after church started a little old woman from Peru walked in and it was her!!!! Her name is Lucia and she is very interested in learning from us and she loved church yesterday!!! :)

This morning I had an interesting experience. I was in the gym and I was just standing on the treadmill trying to work up the motivation to run. Finally I started running and I got 3/4 of a mile done and I thinking, "ugh...keep going...well I don't really want to keep going but I know I should" so I kept going and I was pushing past my unmotivation. Then out of nowhere I had the thoughts, "hey you should get off the treadmill" my brain then goes, "well, why? I ate a lot of crap food yesterday, my body needs this." And I kept running. The thought came again, "Hey maybe you should get off the treadmill" so finally I was like, "ok, well maybe my ankle is going to start acting up, or maybe I'll trip or something, so I'll just stop" so I started walking and then I stopped.

So I was quite curious as to why I needed to get off the treadmill and I realized later what it was. So after I got off, one of the elders in my ward started talking to me about less active members and stuff and then I started asking him random questions about his life. So it wasn't until after this whole thing that I realized the significance of this. This elder usually cant say anything without it being a joke and stuff, but it was really cool to see that for some reason he needed someone to talk to at that moment, and since then he's acted a lot more normal instead of joking all the time. It's been cool to see! Thank goodness for the spirit!!!

One of our investigators in our apartment complex had a piece of mail downstairs and she hadn't picked it up in several days, so we went to give it to her and she answered the door in just a diaper. At first all I could see was her sweater and it was covering everything, but I saw a lot of leg and I was like. "Oh my gosh....she just answered the door with no pants on...please be wearing underwear pleeeease be wearing underwear." Ha ha and then she sat down and I saw she had a diaper on. Phew. Thank goodness! Ha I was going to be scarred for life!!

A sister missionary today told us about how she wasn't given a prescription that she needs. The doctors down here weren't going to fill it, but she legitimately needs it! So she hasn't had it for about a week. Her mom had one of her prescriptions for it back home, but it's illegal to send it through the mail, so this sister talked with the mission president and they decided that her mom needed to send it anyway. So they shipped it....it was supposed to arrive on Friday....didn't come. Saturday, nothing. So they were worried and they called her mom, for some reason there was no way to track the package. They called the ups. They called the mail. They called a bunch of people to find out where the package went. Nothing.

So president decided that they needed to pray. The next morning sthe sister missionaries mom called. She had found the package....it had been shipped to.... Africa..but for some reason they decided to ship it back. Usually if places like Africa receive packages that aren't for them, they will usually open them and throw them away, but they decided to send it back. And since it's illegal to send that stuff via mail then everyone would've gotten in super huge trouble. Like mega. the sister missionary wouldve been sent home and all kinds of stuff, but holy cow it was a crazy experience!!! ha ha of all the places. AFRICA.

Oh!! So I don't think I've meantioned this in an email yet...but we've been teaching a guy named Lou and he is AWESOME. seriously. We have to pass him to some other missionaries because hes out of our boundaries, but its been so cool to teach him. He's being baptized in march. He's a mega tough guy, was in the navy for a number of years and stuff, and yet he was feeling the spirit so strongly that he started to tear up and stuff and we're so excited for him to be baptized!!!!! :)

anywho, I hope everyone has a lovely week!!! love you all!! :)

Week 56

Its been a good week. It was transfers. Im still in the same area though!! Sister Bost and I will probably be together for this transfer and then i'll probably be out of here!! One of the companionships in our apartment complex left.  So instead of having four companionships, we now have three. The elders in our ward and some sisters from a different ward. So the elders that went away left a bunch of food and furniture and stuff and so sister bost and I and the elders in our ward went FREE SHOPPING!!!!! At first we just grabbed a couple of things random household items and, then headed downstairs.

when we got there Sister Bost and I looked at each other and I said,

, "Umm...Hmm..they have a bunch of food up there and we don't have any food....so basically we should go free shopping!!" Sister Bost goes. "OH MY GOSH WE SHOULD GRAB THE LITTLE SHOPPING CART THING FROM THE FRONT!" So we quickly called the elders and ran, grabbed the shopping cart and went back upstairs. The elders saw us with our little shopping cart and were laughing at us Haha so we told them that we loved free stuff! So we grabbed some shopping bags and started loading the cart up. 

We've been having temperatures so cold, that they haven't had them this cold since 1870. ha ha so its been quite the adventure!! But its been fun!!! We made snow angels and stuff. Sister Bost has never made a snow man before, so that's on our to do list of things to do. It was so cold. Well...it's had been the past week. We were walking for about 20 minutes talking to people and my mouth was so cold I could barely form words. 

We were praying that someone would let us in their house and offer us hot chocolate and it was funny because we started talking to some random guy who said that one time on a day like this he had invited some elders in for hot chocolate. HAHAHAHAHA but he didn't end up offering us any, God has a sense of humor that's for sure! after he left we busted up laughing.

On our way out of district meeting, we were stopped at a stop light and the car in front of us was having difficulties. They kept having snow fall on their front window, so they were trying to fix it with their wipers. Wasn't working. Sister Bost said I should run up and scrape it. So I put the car in park and ran out the door with a scraper and started throwing it off the car. The girl saw me running up and opened her window and says, "oh my goodness! Thank you SO much, it just kept falling on the window and I could t do anything g about it."

We did Service at Margos Larsons (Shes an elderly woman who was baptized about a year ago). She was talking about a horse that came out black, but then turned white. And my response was..." Hmm...Sounds like Michael Jackson...." Sister Bost started DYING. and Margo looked confused...so I had to explain it to her. It was really funny though. \

well....that's about it! Have a grand week!! love you all!! :)

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!