"And in the mornin I'm leavin"

I am being transferred to the good ol city of Oklahoma! Ya the big city..haha Sister Johnson doesn't know anything about the ward I am going to be in or who my new companion is...so I am in the air right now with what is going to happen!

 

So people I was unable to get on my email last week because of issues with my email! good thing they sent the problem to the big guys in salt lake and here I am! thankful for people who know how to work with technology and let me email the people I love! word to your mother.

 

I am leaving and that means that I have to say goodbye to Ardecia and that just breaks my heart oh I love that woman! We taught her about the word of wisdom and the law of chastity the other day and she was just cracking jokes! oh goodness but she believes in all that stuff...except she does not want to give up her tea.. and she doesn't even want to pray about it because tea wont make her go to hell. I love her but I will be praying for her a lot because I wont be able to teach her anymore and see how she progresses and it is hard to leave when she is struggling with something but I know that sister Johnson and her new companion will take good care of her.

 

Alright I want to tell you all something and if you think I am crazy, then go ahead! haha but as some of you know, I LOVE PENNIES. like I love them a lot and you better believe that if I see one on the ground I am going to pick it up no matter the condition that it is in (I carry hand sanitizer with me everywhere so don't worry) but the main reason why I love pennies so much is that they brighten my day and honestly when I see one I feel like a little kid and pick it up. Whenever my day is hard or I need some rebuking...(haha sometimes I have a bad attitude! no judging! sometimes it is hard! haha) but I have always found a penny when I needed it the most! Needless to say, I find a lot of pennies:) haha But the thing that I have learned most about this is that Heavenly Father knows me and He knows how to send me a message! haha I love it and it really helps me catch myself when I need to change my attitude or I need to be comforted! I am really thankful for that and the knowledge that I have about being a daughter of God and knowing that He cares about me and my strange liking for pennies :)

 

I love you all a lot and may your days be blessed with the finding of many pennies :) haha have a good week!!!

 

Love, Alisha

No update today :(

I got a message this morning saying that Alisha was having trouble with her e-mail account and couldn't log in. She called the mission office but they weren't able to fix it, so we didn't get an e-mail update from her today.

In her letter last week she sounded great - she is loving missionary work and the people of Elgin, Oklahoma. She said that their dinner calendar is full after the Branch President asked the members to feed the missionaries. They also got a nice new car, because someone backed into their other one and it was taken in for repairs.

We are so grateful for the blessings of missionary work and the growth that we see in Alisha and Ethan as they serve!

OK is the place to be!

Hello everybody!

 

We had a wonderful week :) really yesterday was probably just the best day ever. Ardecia came to church and all of the meetings were just perfect. Our new senior missionaries spoke in church and they did such a great job and they talked about prayer! Amazing people. They have already jumped in and they are trying to bring the branch together because we have two different cultures here! I love them. In Sunday School we talked about repentance and it was just a great discussion with everyone in there. Then the best part was Relief Society! It was about the "no empty chairs" talk and how when we get to heaven we don't want any empty chairs and it was just so powerful!!

 

In Relief Society we had to draw a picture of our family and Ardecia was sitting right next to me and so goes to pick out a crayon and says, "well my family is brown, and so I will get brown." I then picked up a white crayon and looked at my white paper and said, "I don't think this is going to work out" and she busted! Oh goodness she thought it was so funny and she was just trying to keep it in! Thank you for laughing at my jokes lady! haha

 

This week was great! I hope that all of you are doing good! Share the gospel with everyone....NO EMPTY CHAIRS!

 

Give em heaven:)

 

Alisha  

Blazin'

Hey peeps

This week was great and really we got work done! (say that as gangster if you can because that is the way I intended it to be read!) We were able to visit almost all of our less-actives (that is a lot) because we spent l3 hours one day just making bread that we could take to them! I mean it was a success! what a week!

We were able to visit with Ardecia twice this week and that was great! the first time she brought 3 other people to the lesson! I mean come on! how much cooler can she get! am I right? so that lesson was a bit crazy because we were just trying to get to know all of them and they are all so funny so it wasn't all on topic! haha but one ended up living in another area and we get to teach the other two! one is named Amanda and the other is Jennifer. Amanda is a family friend and Jennifer is Ardecia's daughter. wonderful ladies!

The second time we were visiting with Ardecia things weren't all that good. We showed up the same time as a cop showed up and we didn't know what was going on. We knocked on her door and she was crying. her husband (he wont let her divorce him) is threatening to burn down her house and kill her and stuff. i mean this lady is tough and she doesn't take crap from anyone but it was sad to see her like this and what can we do? nothing. the cops in Elgin are super chill and they have dealt with her husband before but they aren't very good at enforcing the restraining order. Its tough and we just shared a spiritual thought with her and prayed with her and then let her take care of her stuff. I love her and it is so sad that she has to go through all of that stuff, but God has a plan for everyone. We are going to go visit her again on Tuesday.

This week a crazy cricket got into our house. The way I found out was because in the middle of the night I would hear it chirping...oh it drove me crazy! i cant even tell ya. so I didn't get a lot of sleep this week and then one night I found it and you better believe I made it think twice about coming into our apartment...haha I  smashed him real good.  

Well that was my week! we got a lot done and we did it while it was over 100 degrees outside! holla holla we be balla missionaries.

Love, Alisha

Baptismal date yo!

Baaaa where to begin!

 

Well we went tracting with one of our members....it was her idea and I guess that she loves it! haha it was funny because the first house that we went to the guys opened the door like a tiny bit and looked at us (I mean it was awkward because he yelled at us from a tiny crack) weirdo man haha but he yelled something about how we are a cult and that his family will not talk to people that are from a cult and then slammed the door as best as he could....haha I died! Way to start off tracting! Sister Jones is so funny and we just went to the next house! Oh joke is on those people because when they do that it gives me strength to go to the next house because it makes me laugh pretty hard inside.

 

Ardicia has a baptismal date everybody! She is the greatest and the last lesson that we had with her was so powerful! Oh my goodness and then she tells us about how she talks with her family about how her life has changed since we showed up and boy she is a rock. We are going back to teach tomorrow! I love that lady. She takes care of her two handicapped grandchildren during the days and she is just the woman (like the man) haha

 

Well life is good here in elgin! I love the gospel and I have noticed how much it really does for us in our life. I guess it took me to go on a mission to really see that. I know that if we continually try to live the doctrine of Christ then we will be blessed and we will become perfected! I mean I want be perfect! haha

 

I love you all! have a good week:)

 

Love, Alisha